Just one more amitriptyline
and then I'll be dead
at least from the neck up
a perfect slumber,
forever restful
a perfect slumber,
never stressful
See,
I know what it feels like
to be barely twenty-three
going on forty-six
walking over hot coals
sleeping on sticks
So I throw stones
to break bones
and creative havoc
to feel something else
something other than
this pain I've carried
for too, ******* long
With the weight of twelve bricks
on my head its
nigh on impossible
and it hurts my neck
to look to the future
in a positive light
Yeah,
we're all getting older
and yes, I know
that I'm still young
because I remind myself
of this all too often
See,
I'm surely too young to
feel this way and
I'm surely too numb to
see it another way
I don't see anything
I only feel everything
the good, the bad
and all the tragedy in-between
I never dreamed I'd know
what it feels like to be born
a bird with clipped wings
Oct 26, 2018
Oct 26, 2018 at 4:59 PM UTC
Just one more amitriptyline
and then I'll be dead
at least from the neck up
a perfect slumber,
forever restful
a perfect slumber,
never stressful
See,
I know what it feels like
to be barely twenty-three
going on forty-six
walking over hot coals
sleeping on sticks
So I throw stones
to break bones
and creative havoc
to feel something else
something other than
this pain I've carried
for too, ******* long
With the weight of twelve bricks
on my head its
nigh on impossible
and it hurts my neck
to look to the future
in a positive light
Yeah,
we're all getting older
and yes, I know
that I'm still young
because I remind myself
of this all too often
See,
I'm surely too young to
feel this way and
I'm surely too numb to
see it another way
I don't see anything
I only feel everything
the good, the bad
and all the tragedy in-between
I never dreamed I'd know
what it feels like to be born
a bird with clipped wings
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