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awake and it's hopeless insomniac and opened pandora in the corner crying everything she had is stolen taken from her in the woods ***** and robbed of all her good roped and ribbed avoid her, good not so brave and power gone boxing gloves no longer on i wonder why i dream of ****** smoking, lying, dealing in corners chain chain chain of fools, that's me i stop to turn and look i bleed i can't keep up i'm my own treadmill running always up up uphill constant loop i step on my face panting wheezing come on ***** pace ball toe heel for freedom freedom walking, telling myself that i run a thousand times a year they say to me you look like my cousin's best friend's cleaning lady shut up i dont care, stop stop right there the old conundrum never knowing who i am wake up soldier, break time's over breaking brakes and driving over cliffs and i wonder will i ever be the older one in a partnership, mentor to a little kid parent to an alien, wriggling chewing bubble gum do you believe in a one, 1, One? do you believe in america, son? rocking, waiting for chernobyl melting down and starting over rocking, forward backward forward on my mind this pungent odor why's the light so cold and broken why's the day time rank and molded why's the sky so hazy hazy lie in bed so heavy, crazy coffee, cream and sugar lady, eat too much and starving lately give give give me all you have be my friend, my soul, my sin understand it's paper please cuz i can't go back i'm on my knees wish that i could keep a promise one, just one and i'd be honest but i lie and steal and break i ************* **** **** **** wish i could believe in something once, just once and i'd be saintly i never did pray to god i pray to the people i love the people who tear me down the people who build me back up hey why's it so hard to glue things together? let air dry and avoid contact with eyes permanence a concept i just cant realize never knowing anything at all paralyzed after the fall stop stop stop stop stop stop dont call waiting awake my brain a seussian landscape pandora and the lorax get it on under the moon's haze i know that im not comical i box it in i want it all check this box, this box, this box yes give it up come, come don't protest close your eyes and sleep will happen ready for lift-off, everybody strapped in?
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Apr 16, 2011
Apr 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM UTC
insomnia
awake and it's hopeless insomniac and opened pandora in the corner crying everything she had is stolen taken from her in the woods ***** and robbed of all her good roped and ribbed avoid her, good not so brave and power gone boxing gloves no longer on i wonder why i dream of ****** smoking, lying, dealing in corners chain chain chain of fools, that's me i stop to turn and look i bleed i can't keep up i'm my own treadmill running always up up uphill constant loop i step on my face panting wheezing come on ***** pace ball toe heel for freedom freedom walking, telling myself that i run a thousand times a year they say to me you look like my cousin's best friend's cleaning lady shut up i dont care, stop stop right there the old conundrum never knowing who i am wake up soldier, break time's over breaking brakes and driving over cliffs and i wonder will i ever be the older one in a partnership, mentor to a little kid parent to an alien, wriggling chewing bubble gum do you believe in a one, 1, One? do you believe in america, son? rocking, waiting for chernobyl melting down and starting over rocking, forward backward forward on my mind this pungent odor why's the light so cold and broken why's the day time rank and molded why's the sky so hazy hazy lie in bed so heavy, crazy coffee, cream and sugar lady, eat too much and starving lately give give give me all you have be my friend, my soul, my sin understand it's paper please cuz i can't go back i'm on my knees wish that i could keep a promise one, just one and i'd be honest but i lie and steal and break i ************* **** **** **** wish i could believe in something once, just once and i'd be saintly i never did pray to god i pray to the people i love the people who tear me down the people who build me back up hey why's it so hard to glue things together? let air dry and avoid contact with eyes permanence a concept i just cant realize never knowing anything at all paralyzed after the fall stop stop stop stop stop stop dont call waiting awake my brain a seussian landscape pandora and the lorax get it on under the moon's haze i know that im not comical i box it in i want it all check this box, this box, this box yes give it up come, come don't protest close your eyes and sleep will happen ready for lift-off, everybody strapped in?
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polly-golightly
Apr 16, 2011
Apr 16, 2011 at 3:45 PM UTC
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