I used to close my eyes
To hide me away
From the things that were scaring me
When I didn't want to listen
When there were too many things going on

I've grown and undertaken
Some real mistakes
Misjudgments
Decisions that made me judge myself

I find that nowadays
Not much has changed
From when I was a little person
At least for me, anyways

I still see a lot of good
In people
We all want the best
For our children and our favored peers

But there is all of this fighting and disagreement
A true mess
But what future do you want to have?
A place to care and love one another?
Or somewhere to distinguish and compare?

We are all in this together
If you don't realize this by now
You are lost

I keep on trying to love people

Girl, why do you tolerate the mess?
You really do not need to deal with nonsense
You sadly let time waste to the side
Lots of pain and sadness you continue to hide
He never really appreciated you
He tore your poor heart in two
There really is no purpose of you to stay there
Nothing but bad air and you need to be aware

Walking home by myself
A lonely trip with only the wind to keep me company
Cigarette butts litter the curb
Whose lips they've touched
Their story I will never know

The smells of nighttime and laundry fill the air
In the distance, music can be heard mixed with laughter
Somewhere, memories are being made
Unbeknownst to the receiving, someone is falling in love
For it to only end up in heartbreak

In those high rise buildings
Someone is contemplating suicide
Three doors down, a life is being made

On these lonely walks home
I witness the world we live in
In the darkness, I can see

There shall be no shelter
From shadowed hypocrisy.
For the stars shine bright and just
That all the mortal men may see.
All that you wish.
All that you believe.
Are just two diverging branches
From the same forgotten tree.

Rotten with the cynicism of age
The bark chips fast,
Squalid lackluster page.
Built upon the decay of rage
Fallow thoughts they plough the land.
Reaped by those deemed unworthy.
Truth uprooted by savage hand.

Come to Ohio
Journey through the Midwest
Come to Ohio
You won't know how to dress
Come to Ohio
Sure you can invest
Come to Ohio
Pollution fogs the factory breath
Come to Ohio
Here's a coat for the summer
Come to Ohio
Here's some shorts for the winter
Come to Ohio
Here's some algae bloom to drink
Come to Ohio
Oh wait Ohio stinks,
Come to Ohio
North and South to the borders
Come to Ohio
Drugs come and go and ****** enters
Come to Ohio
Streets cracked no money left
Come to Ohio
No work just *** to sell, from the girls men kidnap and infect
Come to Ohio
Prisons just about every block
Come to Ohio
We got no view, and black skies to, a lake that's brown, shoes new.
Come to Ohio
Hood's where the ******'s are popping
Come to Ohio
No laughter just sobbing
Come to Ohio
What's wrong don't like it yet?
Come to Ohio
No keep going, Ohio forget.