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Afra Al Zaabi Mar 2015
Misplaced
I feel like a stranger,
Or an outsider as they say

I am surrounded by so many people, yet feel alone.

I feel lost in this big crowd,
Or perhaps a seed surrounded by flowers
A seed indeed

Why do they disdain me?
Do they hear me?
Do I even exist to them?
Do I even belong here?

Sighs

My mind is telling me I should leave,
But my heart refuses

Should I leave?
Or should I follow my heart instead?

**Confused
#alone #flowers #lost #stranger #seed #crowd #outsider #misplaced #surround #indeed
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Sombro Feb 2015
Humanity to a Tourist
Do you fear the night,
And not the rain?
Do you fear the flesh,
And not the pain?

You're not human,
Clattering like chattering teeth,
It's not you and I,
But I and it
When you're around.

What's the spell
To the faith?
What's the candle
To the wraith?

Don't fear the dark, my dear
For I am near
And you and it
Can't stand my leer.
#life #philosophy #outsider
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Stephanie Holloway Feb 2015
Outsider
I yearn to be an outsider.
To stray from society...
All in order to be
Who I'm truly
Created to be

I'm willing to face inner and outer adversity
All in the name of freedom
Judge me
Ridicule me
I care not, for I yearn to be
Everything I was created for
Living life purposefully
Breaking societal norms
I care not for the path created by
The government
But rather live happily
Fruitfully
In accordance to
Who I am created to be.
Wandering Unconventionally.
#freedom #break #thoughts #free #different #judge #conformity #outsider #unconventional #ridicule
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Yasmin Greenfield Dec 2014
A true outsider
Do you know the worst feeling?
The one that you get when you're alone
You feel like a shell
Where hatred has grown

People don't seem to notice
How embarrassed you feel
But they do this on purpose
So they don't have to invite you in  

No song, book, or movie can describe
A true outsider
Because in the end they all have friends
In real life you're just a loner
Cutting below the hands

Why do you treat me as a second choice?
Is that all I am to you!?
Don't I have a voice?
Well, I'm done pretending that it's ok
Since you make me feel dark as night
When it is day
So I'm leaving you all
Without delay
So maybe, just once
I wont be afraid
Because the people worth chasing
Don't run away
rediscovering some old thing I wrote.
#friends #cutting #life #afraid #alone #real #loner #leaving #outsider
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Joe Satkowski Nov 2014
Stoopin' in my Tip-Taps
Stoop to my level
Come on down
See it unfold

Visit my family functions
but vacate the premises
Let it swallow you

Parading around
downtown
and visiting all your favorite stores

I watch you walk
but I have no time to talk
in passing moments
fractured by too much thought
I miss you

I hate you?
eternal scarring friend
We are separated as one

Stoop to my level
Come on down
See it unfold
Written by Joe Satkowski

Lyrics from Pit. by Transient In Barcelona.
https://transientinbarcelona.bandcamp.com/album/pit
#word #lyrics #spoken #outsider #songwriting #album
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Joe Satkowski Nov 2014
Gearhead
Taking
but not
talking

Waking
without
walking

Refuse the abuse
and return it to sender

Gearhead
Gearhead
Gearhead
Gearhead
Oh my little
Gearhead
What you've grown
to be
Gearhead
here for all to see
Gearhead
judge accordingly
Gearhead
Gearhead

Look at my inside
are they good enough
for you?
The city
is painted
and named
after you
You don't need a disguise
the way you look will do just fine

Gearhead
Gearhead
Gearhead
Gearhead
Oh my little
Gearhead
Gearhead
what you've grown to be
Gearhead
here for all to see
Gearhead
judge accordingly
Gearhead
Written by Joe Satkowski

Lyrics from Pit. by Transient In Barcelona.
https://transientinbarcelona.bandcamp.com/album/pit
#word #lyrics #spoken #outsider #songwriting #album
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Joe Satkowski Nov 2014
Curtain Call
Look at the boy
Look at the boy
comin' down the chimney

Look next to you
See whose on
The evening train
With you

A message
for the faint of heart
or weak stomachs
that go
on and on and on forever
on and on and on forever

Goodnight my friends
Goodnight my friends
Be well
I bid you a grand ol' farewell
and condemn you all to hell
condemn you all
to hell
condemn you all
to hell

Look at the boy
Look at the boy
Look at the boy
comin' down the chimney

Look at the boy
Look at the boy
Look at the boy
coming down the
chimney
Written by Joe Satkowski

Lyrics from Pit. by Transient In Barcelona.
https://transientinbarcelona.bandcamp.com/album/pit
#word #lyrics #spoken #outsider #songwriting #album
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Joe Satkowski Nov 2014
Every Night, The Same Dream
The one who ate the lights
Always in the way
The floorboards creak and sway
and the windowpanes shatter

The one who ate the lights
The one that got away
Tucking your children in at night

The one who ate the lights
Look whose telling you your rights
Melodrama is the middle ground
Can this life truly be found?

The one who ate the lights
Wasn't their fault at all
They'll never know the pain
or what it is to fall

The one who ate the lights
Laughing at our plight
but it might just work

The one who ate the lights
not yet accountable for actions

We'll all have to pay for it in the end
Written by Joe Satkowski

Lyrics from Pit. by Transient In Barcelona.
https://transientinbarcelona.bandcamp.com/album/pit
#word #lyrics #spoken #outsider #songwriting #album
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Joe Satkowski Nov 2014
Fashionable Warts
That trendy backwoods stomp
Your snake is spitting
and drowning in the rain

From on top my altar
I am the one you want
Like a peasant
In the city square

That trendy backwoods stomp
That spiteful sideways glare

Your snake is spitting
and drowning in the rain

Give the men treats for labor
Give the women something else
It will never be fair so long as they stare

That trendy backwoods stomp
Written by Joe Satkowski

Lyrics from Pit. by Transient In Barcelona.
https://transientinbarcelona.bandcamp.com/album/pit
#word #lyrics #spoken #outsider #songwriting #album
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Joe Satkowski Nov 2014
Ginger Ale
Pleasure
quantified
Propensity
Profit
Polyamorous

The boardwalk you dragged me on to
The time that we shared outside of the party
The rat poison made you walk funny
The planks that splattered your brain matter on the ferris wheel

Sooner or later you will realize that "the ride is not stopping;
You are going to die"

The hole in the beach
That took you down
Do not worry
Made sure it was deep enough
To muffle any sound
That will be produced
After you are buried
Written by Joe Satkowski.

Lyrics from Pit. by Transient In Barcelona.
https://transientinbarcelona.bandcamp.com/album/pit
#word #lyrics #spoken #outsider #songwriting #album
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