We’re gonna let it
slip away.
Gonna commit
the same mistake
as everyone who came before us,
everyone we put down in our lives.
Thought that we were
better, smarter, stronger.
But we were deceived,
just like our fathers.
Weaker than we received credit.
Allowed to live
when we should have died.
Parents die,
inherit Heaven.
Spend it all on Black and Mild’s.
Crank the suck up to eleven.
Every simple, spoiled child.
We’re gonna let the world become
the place
we never would have gone
before we lost our souls,
and our minds soon followed.
Beneath intelligence
lays our wanton belligerence.
So easily deceived,
so easily cajoled
into pretending what we know
isn’t real
The facts don’t flow
like the rivers of blood
now go.
So, it seems
we traded the farm
for magic beans.
Sold each other
as slaves to the other team.
Power by any means
made nightmares
out of dreams.
We’re gonna let it slip,
if we don’t get a grip.
We’re fucking losing it.
Bleeding out drip by drip.
We’ll have to first admit
that we don’t know shit,
before we can be honest
about we believe.
No turning back, now.
All the cards are down.
The stars are out.
The next thing
out of our mouths
will be the path we seek.
DJR – 2023
