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Jul 2019
Keep It Light, Keep it light
Keep it light for ****'s sake,
for ****'s sake keep it light

Keep it light, just keep talking about the weather
Don't look directly at the objects weighing on your mind
Identify the myriad peripheral minutiae
And save this sombre revelation for another place and time.

Keep it bright, cos I need some comic relief
No need to state the fact that things are really ******
So keep your stinking bandages wound up nice and tight now
Everyone can see but they're just trying not to look

Keep It Light, Keep it light
Keep it light for ****'s sake,
for ****'s sake keep it light

Keep it light, keep that unthinking tongue moving
You and I both know there's nothing much to say
Keep doubling those negatives, don't stop your glottle.
Create meaning in keeping silences at bay

Don't invite comparisons between each petty grievance.
Sanctify the failsafe that disconnects them all.
Tell yourself there's more to this than sum of it's parts.
Keep on counting up the bricks but disregard the wall.

Keep It Light, Keep it light
Keep it light for ****'s sake,
for ****'s sake keep it light

Don't excite yourself by looking straight at your problems
Just relax, pretend that tomorrow is a different day
Take enough pills to put it off a few more hours;
but not enough to permanently make it go away

Keep it in, don't think your insights make you special
The self-aware will all still share the empty-headed's fate
Vibrate the air with sickly cares if you want to.
none of your pretty, ****** words will hold any weight.

If You're lonely?
Well We're all lonely.
and if you're You're tired
Well so am I.
You wish you had more time to waste
In ways more fitting to your taste
You wish you didn't mind it.
Living life as you find it.

Don't think your the only one who sees the yawning void
Beneath this hideousness and decay
and whilst you cook up artful ways to try and make us see it
All we're tryna do is look away
All we want to do is look away
Janek Kentigern
Written by
Janek Kentigern  Manchester
(Manchester)   
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