We uprooted the cedar
Now there's nothing left to feel for
The barn owl took the rat's nest
I guess I'm fucked if I'm up next
I wrote my stories loosely based on reality
So I might have love if not for discrepancy
It never adds up to fill the gaps
It never was enough to be what I lacked
The stranglehold is a sure way to go
Be what you want but you'll always want more
Lacerated leather strips down the deviant's back
He said he'd be an amputee before he felt that
Now he looks back as a blaspheme
Another shocked man who can't get clean
From the casket filled with a heavy tease
I know I'm just that bastard sinking
It down poured and we could hear it
Feeling high on ghosts and spirits
Courtesy came tragically
But we needed something clearer
Like a cauldron full of carcinogens
A lung about to live again
Or some insatiable insanity momentarily getting the best of me
Left with this and nothing less
I can't complain about my current lens
I see what I want to see
But I'm trapped beneath something glistening
Looking out for every threat and weaponized flag
We can't await to pay our dues to a kingdom that's brash
If I hold my own head when I die
Would it be enough to make mama cry
I starved so I could keep my secret stash