We used to play in the gutter;
now we use it to flush shit down.
We used to care for each other;
don’t go playing innocent now.
We watched our cares
circle the bowl
and we were relieved
they were off of our shoulders.
Out of our minds,
out of our heads,
out of control;
somehow not dead.
Where did the smile in your eyes go?
We ran so fast to the future,
thought we had it all figured out.
Hatched all our plans on computers;
abandoned with one punch in the mouth.
Never more disarmed,
unprepared and uninspired.
Proclaiming we’ve made it so far,
I bet your arms must be tired;
’cause constantly patting yourself on the back
ain’t easy,
oh, I know.
Thinking one thing, when another is true;
is insanity
– down we go.
Do you think you get a pass
to talk down to us now?
Do you think that you’ve evolved
above the chaos and the crowd?
That by virtue of your age,
or fashionable moral code,
you’ve somehow crawled out of the ditch
and now you’re walking down the road?
Well listen up you little bitch;
you haven’t come that far,
I still catch a whiff of shit,
every time you think you’re better than you are.
One good rain
and everyone drains down.
Knowledge of pain
isn’t retained,
or we’d be insane now.
Pride and conceit,
lie and we cheat
and we think we gain ground.
Top of the heap,
’til the ground at our feet
begins to break down
– and we are just flushed
back in the gutter again.
HG – 2016
