“I was a teenager once”, you always remind us
Like it’s something glorious or relevant
Like it changes the playing field
From us vs. you, to flowers and butterflies
And ‘Let’s all get along’ songs
Like we couldn’t comprehend that you were ever young
That you might understand what it’s like to feel this lost
When everyone is talking so loud
About the girl who just sucked them off
Or that guy, who’s just so cute you want to barf
And we paste those superficial smiles on in the morning
And paint up sex eyes in the evening
And wash it all off when we go to bed
So that our pillows aren’t stained that poppy red
And that girl I knew
The one with her hair done up in curls
Is sitting on that too straight chair
Trying to remember what got her there
Between the blur of cars, people, coffee makers and drug dispensers
She can’t seem to recall
And the waves of blue and green make little whirlpools at her feet
Splashing tattoos and toe rings up her ankles
And all those kids pick stars out of the air
They pop them in their mouths like the next high
But they don’t slid down so smooth
They burn and come up in the mix of bile and bullshit their
Parents, teachers, preachers, and politicians mixed them
Like a cup of warm milk to send them off to bed, tucked tight
With their next fuck
Trying to stay upright
As the world spins so fast
And the beds bounce too high
Till they are sailing in the sky
With all those uneatable star
So scared in the limelight
They turn back to those bottles of nerves
Just one more and I’ll be good
Just one more and I’ll be numb to all that laughter
And the little boy down the street
The one that use to play all those innocent games with me
And scream so loud
Has curbed his rage into another kind of hit
The ones you let off in smoke rings
In a cry up to heaven
Saying “SOS, please God help me”
So we all curl up in our beds at night
With the blankets pulled around supper tight
And our feet pulled up to our chests
Hoping those under-bed monsters won’t finally catch up to us
And so you ask if we’re all right
And you say it in that ‘I’ve been there’ way
So we smile like our cheeks are your figure puppets
Saying ‘every things just dandy’
When every things not “just Dandy”
And can you really expect it to be “Dandy”
When our country is rotting from the top down
The politicians don’t even have the decency to recycle
They just throw all this shit at our feet
Till the mountain of social and economical injustice
Has us waste deep
Climbing still
So they say “Lets send it up in space
And let it waste with the stars we stole from
All those cradle eyes
Blind to the way America works”
Self for self
Step on all those toes
Till you’re are the only one left on the road
Pointed straight down to hell
Spinning out of control
Babies bounce around your head
Yelling swearwords like breast milk
And it seems
Innocence is growing scarcer each scene
Till we are smearing poppy red face paint
all over little four year olds
Telling them they aren’t pretty enough
“Let’s fix that
Too fat
Too boyish
Too flat”
Till all that’s left is plastic
And I don’t want to be plastic anymore
You keep saying I understand
I understand
I understand
Like repetition makes perfect
You spew words like meanings
And pretend to care
But you don’t
And you never will
So stop all this pretending
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