i_am_finally_home
warmthofrelease (it's_messy_it's_supposed_to_be_messy)



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show me life_as_an_instrument:

I am vain and I am blind
the only way to my heart
is to humble me in a way that
doesn't make me feel challenged
or bitter
which I believe is near impossible

FUCK you, this IS more fun than being alive
you think you can be on the winning side of chaos?
there_is_no_winning_side,
there is no side at all

give me death_by_asceticism and give me liberty

I assume the right to refuse,
wanted_or_unwanted
it_is_all_I_want_and_it's_not
it_is_all_I_need_and_it's_not

and I will never be the same
as the day my mouth was full of blood

what will I leave and take from this world
it comforts a kindled mind to know
that the measurements all equal out in the end

I think I must have sunk
rising surely wouldn't feel so safe

all just to show you
what a little starvation can do
to show you what little is in front of you
and what little you can do

I_want_to_be_a_reason_to_live

you can ask for me to love you
you can ask me why I should
but not both

why not just bury me alive
test the waters,
see if I survive
if you came to take me back
then come take me by force,
but come
give me my resources my reasons
and I'll make it there
just come get me
just so that you could put god in a guillotine
how much we uncovered in those beautiful lies
I can't find it in me to love myself
I have to lean on the love that is given
until I can, until I can
for as long as I need to
come to me
260831
...
warmthofrelease (I was told
devotion_is_worth_the_effort

why_would_I_not_believe?

yes,
we will get_to_the_bottom_of_this

we will behave)



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feel so enlightened about the complicated things
and so confused about the simple things

because the things you laugh about
are the things I wanna cry about
and the things you cry about
always me laugh

what an absolute bowlingforgarbage team, completely

completely hopeless

you already know you're gonna play one more so just
put your quarter down now

I do just hate to be clear
it really is boring
but only compared to what I've seen

I have to drown in something,
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...and we've all felt_a_loveless_world rock us to sleep
( vi_finally_home )
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at the bottom of the middle class
on another sunny Thursday
rather be alive than dead

but death is what we're giving to the man
that's our paying dues, paying tribute
sacrificing our lives for someone else's money

(oh you poor fool,
it's not the events it's the conditions
it's the weather on a given day
random chaos variables beyond our reach
that's what makes up the winners and the losers
in this game we've made
mood
set_like_a_dimmer_switch
in silence
from the_mind_inaccessible
(without intervention)
human have you
learned to grow simply
because you've learned to fool yourself?
when does it stop?
how does it stop?)



the super scary musical labyrinth of my soul?
you can get lost in that
or get found
god only knows what's worse

xylophones and twenties
men and women

how can I love someone
who loves the bad songs best of all?



but every time I walked outside that day
I_hoped_I_would_find_you
and no past present or future
could ever make that untrue
260902
...
warmthofrelease whereami?



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it's just about

"act complicated"

ya know?

it's like
fighting with a mirror
that refuses to become you

but you love it

I don't know, do you ever think there will be
a cultural divide
that evolves between the people
connected
to_the_wires_of_the_world
and the people connected
to the people
how much longer can
the netted web hold
until it rips everything apart
like a pillow used by sibling children in a tug of war
how long

who knows

got garbage in my mind and
nothing in my memory,
or nothing on my mind and
garbage in my memory

but that which is lost
cannot be destroyed or diminished
it's one_of_those_things that
can be taken as both_warning_and_advice kinda like
this too shall pass

how did heaven get to be so mean-crowded?
so much power up here...

I've come to enjoy
the burial
of the self
letting
an imagination like mine run loose
it's nice to see and share sometimes

but turning my mind loose onto someone
is just plain mean
and really satisfying, I'm afraid
to say
and think
and be

the deathless idiot
hit me with a hammer and I went
down

down

into helping some loser
dream his way out of bed

maybe make a song for someone's ex's fucked up child
who just happens to be my age

I could call it
(Southshore)
I live on a
broke fuckin road
and
so do a lot of us




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(except now the road so quiet
but so scrunched in
bunched together
starting to feel a little
boxed in
like I
painted myself in
to a corner

maybe again)



if my neighbors hate me I don't hate them back

but fuckem

no hate

but fuckem



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its about achievement
more than anything else
but achievement is framed in the mind
dependent
not only upon the circumstances
of where the object is
relative to the angle and the focus
but also the point of view

achievement is something the mind defines for itself
as it seeks it
and before and after
the mind's effort
breaks itself
into singular patterns
something it can recognize and divide reliably:
"days"
forcing rest upon itself

and by the time the mind
has learned to count
things become kind of...



complicated
260917
...
warmthofrelease (at_least_I_can_always_look_back_on
my good_intentions

where aaaaaare yooooou

at_least_I_can_always_fall_back_on
the lack_of_promises_broken_or_made)



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the_perception_of_the_self
is confused
by
the self's perception



inconvenient



never try to give nothin to no taker

why am I so relentless

the valley or the color palette,
of what do you understand

do you think you can love me
without doing anything

to hell with you

now that you can see
you still choose to not understand

but it's a good movie you should watch it



(I know I'm mocking you)
but I can't tell
if this is an addiction
it's definitely an infliction
am I wasting my time
in hedonism
I need to think about my decisions

I haven't been myself for a while,
but I'll see you soon
and you can do cartwheels for me

there is no doubt my life was terrible
but I was enjoying it
so blessed are the blind
burning_through_the_madness
burning through the last of a lucky streak
and hoping to die quickly



so deeply in fear of pain



the intellect gets lost
within the understanding
the understanding gets lost
within the intellect
you're left with everything,
everything that's just out of reach

you were right
it is easy to ruin things
I don't want to be wanted
anywhere that I'm not needed
and I want to be needed
in the places I want to be
my elegance is refraction
and not yours
it is not a reflection
and neither is yours
you almost made it
to the next stage
possibly the next piece of nothing but
it depends on what you make of it

you'd better enjoy it

the world is getting harder_to_hold_onto
as it grows
forgive all the people who fall off
as it turns
were you so grateful to have me
that you spoiled me rotten
because rotten is all that I feel

not that you're the only one to blame

I don't think it would be so useless of me
to go about finding the truth

oh the heady things
all so exciting
but what I do



...



is it like turning on
is it like turning off
is it harder to show
your love
when there are those around
who are not in love
you're expected to get over that
love is and is worth more than that



let us not fear the danger
the same ones, the same
same exact ones who'd go on to say
I never thought it would happen to me



when being still and quiet and crying
is the best thing you can do
for so long

when you say it was worth it
before it happens

when you're not required
to be bound to it
you take it

it sure does take a lot
steps, days, recovery
time, practice, memory
takes so unbelievably much
just to fit in again
if you ever even did

the same ones who say
can't remember what life was without this
my head
is going to spin right off
I'm afraid
I'm just anxious
I'm kind of excited kind of
afraid
I just wish
my friends would call me already
so I can tell them go away

congratulations

you're still here
we still care about you
you were never sure
of your own genius
but you always knew
you were an asshole

or is it the other way around

does the imagination match the reality
are we stepping into the light
as if our lives depended on it
when only mine is on the line
can we finally turn "be" into a verb
karma is such a douchebag
how heavy hath the moon thought us to teach
how scornful the lessons
how pulling the tides

can anyone catch a pebble
could anyone find it
groundhog_day sounds about right

"I do not hate them all
I just hate the specific ones
that make me think and feel like
they're all the same" would you
fucking listen_to_yourself

vigilance is multiplying
and the vigilantes won't announce
their arrival when they come to town

(I wanna ---- the ----est ---- in -----)

oh to be such a simple kind
but with such a rare taste
almost makes me feel compelled to create

oh an exhausting
wonderful drag
you're gonna break my window one day

I sure build up my fair share of anxieties about the seen and unforseen but it's my foresight that's always doing me in

when the faith of my own burden
meets the peace of my vengeance
two blue moons
two dramamine
two cauldrons stacked
with twigs and weeds
and I have nowhere
I can or need to go



it's about as nice
of a misperception
as doing well in a game of chess

no one ever killed more people
than delusions of grandeur
don't imagine yourself a conqueror
just because you won a fight
260924
what's it to you?
who go
blather
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