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Puppets and Wires

from Debtors by The Long Haul

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My head’s been spinning so fast that it’s burning up,
I scratched my skin through to the bone; your violence is in your silence.
Turn your back on me; your cowardice is your strength.
But it’s the easiest way to say goodbye.
Fuck, it didn’t mean a thing; I’ll bury my head so deep in sand that I’ll be gone.
And you won’t need to explain.
So fucking worthless, every day’s the same and I don’t know what the fuck to do.
I’ll be a dog you can train to lick your heels, I guess I’ll be anything you want because I don’t need my dignity nor self respect just to see through the day. The stench of our real selves is hidden by everyone else.
I’ve been dreaming of ending wasted days and writing stupid words that mean that I can’t live.
Cut the strings that keep me up because the ground has more for me and I won’t have to harbour my fears anymore.
Don’t make progress, don’t move on. Don’t have feelings; they’ll eat your heart.
Don’t share stories, don’t even talk, all that counts here is the way we look.
Cut the strings that keep me up.
We’re lost, we’ve been defeated by monotony; it firmly wrings us dry.
Suffocated by a veil of hope, distraction lifts the weight from our shoulders but that weight will one day crush me, a bag of bones to drag me home.
I write these words for permanence an illusion like all the rest.
Constant flux, instant change, nothing here will stay the same.
Alone I walk away from home, to retain my solitude, silence is real. Permanence presents an emptiness.
I’ll be a dog you can train to lick your heels, I guess I’ll be anything you want because I don’t need my dignity nor self respect just to see the day. The stench of our real selves is hidden by everyone else.
I need to forget this.

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from Debtors, released February 6, 2012

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