I swear we were loosing it. How can you expect a regular man To last longer than a week Alone On an island of sanity Amid an ocean or insanity? How could you expect me to zip my mouth up Like a woman's dress And keep calm about my situation? How could you let me count off the numbers Only to put them back once again? How could you think That white walls And impertinent lies Could mask the suffering fear Swelling inside of me? How could you touch me With those cold unfeeling hands As my friends washed up on the shore More dead than they ever could have been? How could you lay me out in the sun, Watch crimes unfold While you still expected me to be a regular man once home? In that moment With the knife lingering over my scalp, I made a decision to get the Hell out And I have no regrets regarding it. You can chase me down: Scream at me, Rap your knuckles at my door. I'll tell you to put it where the sun don't shine Along with a dishonorable Section 8 discharge And the little bits of my decrepit sanity.