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I always wanted to write, the ultimate song
to get me in the winners pen, where I belong
I always wanted to be the guy who he
wrote what others read and thought to themselves that's me
A beatnick charm that declines with every passing year
the dot gets smaller on the map that says you are here
All the time I'm drinking more and thinking less
when my achievements so far are caught up in an awful mess


There's a pulse here that sometimes comes and goes
I can feel the breath of people dead from so long ago
I've waded thru the shit that makes up so many lives
so many dreams but it's just the shit that they leave behind
you can always say it won't get me
but you know that's the way it'll always be
you start your life with ticker tape parades
but always ends in fallen plaster dust, lies & charades

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why does it always end in tears and shouting and regrets
all life is suffering and the suffering hasn't ended yet
I suppose it could be easier just to end it all now
but with so many ways to do it you haven't worked out how
There's time and thinking things might just pick up
there's just too much doubt involved in just giving up
I wish I could wipe the bloodstains off my bloodied hands
I keep on washing and wiping but the world doesn't understand

There's a rage that wants to bruise and break the skin
there's an anger that wants to burn, now hidden within
You can be immortal if you only live on TV
eternal youth and eternal reruns is the place to be
nobody loves you when you're thirty, your age won't allow
You don't, you can't, you won't end it all now
take what you keep down so you can end all the lies
now we pull the plug and then the picture dies

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from Salem Trials - Do Something Dangerous, released July 5, 2020

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