(0381) irrelevant optimism

single file all the way to school..
24/7 in your faith-based haze..
the almighty united states is all you know..
add dirty water to a seed; watch your pointless money grow..
so entitled to the air you breathe..
have to fill your tank up.. wave your flag, and say how you're proud to be free..
turn on your tv for some entertainment.. two hours later, you're falling asleep..

day in, day out, same thing...
you live in an illusion for half your life.
you find shopping the best way to relax..
but if only you could have the newest iphone at a lower price..

my blood.. it bleeds for no one..
how much difference is there now between dying and staying alive?

(0380) caustic medicine

the temporary nourishment has all but left us cold, and when we collapse under this debt, we'll have no more need to grow. after all this time, there's still no light. your pulse is slowing down. three more years, the same old fears - an endless vacuum of unheard sounds..

so give us a taste of your paradise where the clouds keep hiding all your sorrow. a different dream for each symphony that gets stuck inside your head as you insist you're just waiting for tomorrow. a crushing insignificance, and the worst is yet to come. and when you look at your golden heart, you won't know what you've done. that's when someone dies.. but at least you are still alive..

come sunday morning, you're praying for a wasted cause.
redemption isn't real if you say you're found when you're still obviously lost.

think with your emotions like a child, and you obfuscate all evidence.
when i was just a kid, at least i knew i was innocent.

(0379) chemical chain reaction blues

just tell yourself what you want to and leave the rest to be because where your pride is met with envy, it gives way to pointless soliloquies. pokerfaced and sober, your wrecklessness is all you know so you trade your boredom for impulsiveness and forget to let your gardens grow. we're in the fourth dimension, breaking walls at a breakneck pace. if the motion is granted for a vote, i say we shut it down before it's too late. the chemical chain reaction blues.. birds chirping outside on a saturday afternoon..

note to my self-conscience: pay more attention to the background noise. it's simple fiction mixed in with the simple minds of a girl and boy. born to forget as soon as you both walk out that door. it's just a matter of choosing when to go back for more. we walk together in a stymied approach to protect each other only to trip and fall down the wormholes that lead to different galaxy clusters.. and this is where we repent because we assumed there was nothing new to discover. the chemical chain reaction blues.. birds chirping in your head but what do you got to lose?

(0378) constant and variable

seeing through a different light in a far away dream..
my hopes come apart at night, or at least that's how it seems..
but i wish you could see that in the absence of time, we wouldn't even know what we need.
and i raise my glass up to the sky and nod to the sun..
i'm just a fortunate man who is still on the run.
we're still very unshaped and young, and i'd hate to depart before it's all said and done.
the oxygen's getting thin, and i stumble around.
i'm just trying to get a good grip, but everything's upside-down.. too many numbers to count..
too many dives and too many dips.. and you blinded my eyes like some kind of solar eclipse.

i wrote a letter without any words before i knew how to feel.
another victim of boredom and fear. i couldn't tell what was real.
don't go walking around when you're already lost.. it won't help you get home..
so please take off your shoes.. and just hang up your coat..
we'll all float away together in a slowly-disappearing nursery rhyme boat.