Planets Falling Faster Than the Rain

It’s been 36 days since you were dethroned You were the free-standing house, I was the fist that ripped the power line in half You’re the ouija board to my spirits of the past, You keep bringing us back! Spurn the secrets my brain keeps slipping me, It knows I don’t wanna relive this Ignoring written warnings in instruction manuals I’m soundless in my head but I read with your voice How am I the gun to your head, When choosing to do nothing is still a choice? I captured the blinking lights of the antenna tower But this wasn’t a safe space after all Close but no cigar! You’re a marionette! In light of this vicarious situation, There is none At least not in the home where the heart is I’ve already seen you deindustrialize your mechanics into a level-headed panic Don’t walk the plank when the planets are falling! Tape your thank you notes to balloons and hope they reconsider their targets They might not be set on you but mine are, but the only threat I could ever be is prepping early for surgery when your anatomy is too far Close but no cigar! It’s been 36 days since you were dethroned Forgetting something? I saw what you left in the arcane cut out in the bible in the drawer Don’t lie to me that this is a second bite at the cherry Maybe I picked up on more than you thought So don’t lie and say you weren’t waiting for me to pick yours God already shook his head and left through the dirty hotel door Close but no cigar! He swallowed the ocean and spit it out into your forest Not only will your eyes never meet the end of it, But it knows as well as I, that you’re not used to “up close and personal” You’re more surrounded by oxygen than me You might be filling your lungs but you could be breathing something else instead Fake it ‘till you make it And by the end, it’ll just look like you had dexterity wrapped around your fingertips But I couldn’t bear to see you so confound and cajoled With your hollowed out trees as an escape hatch So eager to point a finger But it was Smokey who lit the match And he threw it with a smile that implied “do as I say, not as I do” Beautifully innocent, or brutally naive? Well you won’t find a scattered map within these leaves God swallowed the sea and left you to absorb it hastily Like the sucker you are and always will be You’re the ouija board to all my cringe worthy choices of words I don’t wanna relive this Stop bringing them forth! It’s been 36 days since you were dethroned They say home is where the heart is But I’m the fist that maimed the power lines sourcing your current You told me “sorry” but you never stopped You keep doing the very thing that made you lose me in the first place You spoke the magic “sorry” but the intention never changed Use your brain and forge a doctor’s note to properly sedate all this rage And your energy was so off, I might have to sage This is so typical It’s the same thing every time Even the clocks broke themselves Who I am to expect bare minimum when all you’ve ever given was below the line Maybe I’ll decrease your dose to one ego boost a month, And call it an eye for an eye; A light scratch for a scar Close but no cigar!