knowledge awaits is the ticket they sell you as you pass through the pearly gates of higher learning with textbook in hand you pray that the dream you have isn't as much of a work of fiction as the history they teach with your college bound girl her vanity lay in her turtle frame glasses she hides behind the foggy lenses of her casual drugs and meaningful ****** episodes she grasps the back of your letterman jacket hoping that you are as surefooted as your propaganda speaks as you follow the blinding path of confusions principal and you think to yourself repeatedly that the truth in the simplest explanation is the actually the most complex because you make it that with realizations and rationalizations through the day to day whittling away of what you really are through lying to yourself that if you stick it out with this false life one more day it will all be better that the relationship you are trapped in will work with you instead of making every day an uphill battle to be heard and loved without tears sometimes look into her eyes and see the endless road of escaping her past and i think that i just want to stop running away settle down and be just simply be a father, a husband, a lover happy