Ball and Chain Pt 1

Eradicated, exquisite, hypocritical, and divine
Given your own heart --- but not given your own mind

Slaving through this lifetime to just rush to the next
Disqualified, degraded, and generation-hexed

Unintelligent, psycho, and deranged
When you open your eyes --- your life has already changed

The flashes of your past speed by under the midnight sky
Stagnant, secluded, and your life on a constant "standby"

Running from the thoughts that erupt out of your brain
Until before you know it, you're dead and your body lies crumbled in vain

The life you were meant to lead has definitely gotten away from you
Rushing through your life --- set off without a clue

Shocked and sinister your body's in pieces
Your spirit dwindles off --- and your life simply ceases

Born with a name, a face, and a voice
Just someone else's solution --- isn't another's method of choice

Always fighting, always frontin', always running from your life
Tearing and shredding through your DNA --- life's composite knife

We all just co-exist under the heightens of this moon
Raging and bubbling and on the verge of starting a monsoon

The emotions you display, will manifest itself as a storm
After the destruction of the storms --- your life it's about to transform

Gathering a team --- preparing for the worse
Losing everything together --- nobody gets to reimburse

Learning the stuff in school, they want your kids to learn
To silence and quiet all of the bottled-up unconcern

The greed of the people of this country within
Forcing you to remember and relive the first, original sin

I'll tell you what I want, if you tell me what you need
For the negativity inside your veins has done nothing to you but mislead

The mission you surround yourself --- the "so-called" box from within
Like everything from the beginning was fake possessions --- fake heart & fake skin

You're a barbie in a world, transformed by boxes of rocks
Millions of stopped galaxies --- millions of broken clocks

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014



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