Mickinous

Mickinous Aug 2016

https://www.reverbnation.com/quirky/song/26489987-pigsty-beg-my-pardon

Pigsty (Beg My Pardon)

even in my darkest nights
I could see the light of day
even at dizzy heights
I could focus on the *****
when I was down
there was always an upside
I could always turn a
frown into a smile
when I'm digging
down in the garden
I'm aware
it's a pigsty
beg my pardon

Mickinous Aug 2016

The Rocking Chair

you're a father who abandoned your children
when we were at a sensitive age
your a father who abandoned your children
and that's how I want it to stay

you reckon it was mum who had left you
and that she had taken us away
but was you who started a new family
and forgot about the one you'd made

you said you need someone to do all your cooking and cleaning
what you meant was another slave
now I realise everything you said had a double meaning
you condemned yourself trying to be saved

I never once saw you with mum in the grand stand
you didn't show up for my 21st birthday
you didn't turn up for my wedding
you don't even know my kids names

now you rock that chair on the veranda
with all the symptoms they say
of almost full blown dementia
slowly waisting away

Mickinous Aug 2016

My Sacrifice

you think I laid my life
down for you
it was my sacrifice
nothing to do with you

it was me getting back
at my old man
I was the only one
who could foil his plans

and you think
I saved your lives
with my sacrifice

but you see
I didn't really die
my friends came and saved me
in the dead of night

don't get me wrong
my dad was ******
he was swearing he'd be back
and he was shaking his fist

here we are now
I tell you he's back
and everyone here
gonna feel his wrath

this time there's nothing
that I can do
cause this time it's also
between me and you

Mickinous Jun 2016

Dumbed Down

you could be
who you want to be
doing
what you want
when you want
wherever you want
you could be yourself
co-existing in parallel
nonchalance
undercover
nonsense
camouflaging
into
where nothing makes sense
and the senses are numbed
Dumbed
Down
So that this moment
can make sense
where you are who you are
with no recompense
no guilt
no compassion
no circumstance
not withholding
no doubt
no resolve
not within
not without

I can slow it down
round it out
make it sound
more profound
Dumb it down
dumb it down
dumb it down
dumb it down

Mickinous Jun 2016

Vivo Vicarious

There's a photo
developing
in the dark room
of over exposed minds
that has captured
the proof
of repeated crimes
against humanity

slowly reducing
the impact of fear
that once fully developed
should bring us to tears

though we are relaxed
at-ease
unconscious
of the true reality
what we think
is normal
is an illusion
of normality

if morals
are the building
blocks of our society
where there's a variety
of ways
of losing your sobriety
where morality
takes a back seat
and normalcies
a bad dream

of a wolf
pulling the wool
over the eyes
of soft little sheep
lost in a dream
about to meet a wolf
with a big appetite
big eyes
big teeth
big claws
dig deep
and you too
will see through
it's clever disguise

Mickinous Jun 2016

Bring in the Clowns

Bring on disclosure
give 'em exposure
take off your masks
show us who you really are
come down from heaven
rise up from hell
they will pick us up
from where we fell
reveal yourselves
remove the disguise
they're coming out of the ground
and down from the skies
some are friend
some are foe
which one is which
how am I to know
one by one
we take a bullet
collateral damage
for the cause

The world could collapse
into mass hysteria
vanish through a blackhole
of plush leather interior into
a soft crushed velvet existence
stroking the furry wall
in a dreamlike trance
taking the bullet for us all

or reject us like a virus
all because of Miley Cyrus
and her wrecking ball

Mickinous May 2016

Birds Riding Thermals

from my balcony
i see the alchemy
and i have the need to remind myself
i need to breathe
every morning is the same
looking at the world
from outer space
i see that life
goes on without me

from this new perspective
i see a new directive
part of me wants to leave the scene
the other wants to play detective
everyday i play this game
try to look at the world
in a different way
but life keeps repeating
and everything's the same

so in conclusion
i see reality's illusion
and what's not real
can not be real
and can not be the solution
only in an upward spiral
can we gain the height
to move on in life
so around and around
in circles we fly
like birds riding thermals