Keith D Trestrail Poet Lyric

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Sum of All Things

I’m pissin’ in the wind
  and a hurricane blows,
driftin’ too far drownin’
  in a sea of woes

Feet of clay crumble
  from under its weight,
and I drink to forget
  but fear it’s too late

And I wanna vent but
  it’s better I don’t
and I wanna leave but
  I know I won’t

I suck it up and try
  to be a better man
and substitute reality
  with anythin’ I can

Till I no longer feel
  and too much to bear,
and look in the mirror
  and no longer care

The dogs of time are
  howlin’ at the moon
and I feel like I’ll be
  joinin’ them soon

That fortress I built
  means nothin’ at all,
sadly it's just a brick
  and not a wall

That road I'm travellin’
  is aimless and long,
and it’s paved with sh*t
  and has been all along

Love and joy and hope
  are fanciful dreams,
in this world of mine
  nothin’ is as it seems

Gaslit truth and trust
  and culture wars rage,
and I fear I've entered
  a dark Orwellian age

A crisis of aspiration
  takes a frightenin' toll,
and that scream I hear
  comes from the soul

The winds of fate blow
  in the end times too,
and storms are gatherin’
  but what am I to do

This big old universe
  keeps fu*kin’ with me
but I won’t tempt fate
  and what will be will be

I’ve spoken with God
  and read the holy writ,
it sucks if my fate is to
  burn in a flamin’ pit

I can breathe in the air
  but not livin’ is dyin’,
and I've asked myself
  what’s the use in tryin’

For the fork in the road
  is nigh just up ahead
and I wanna go straight
  but will veer instead

Now the clock is tickin’
  in the midnight hour
and the taste of death is
  both sweet and sour

Ya must do what ya must
  for it’s not well to exist
when the sum of all things
  are too much to resist


Written: February 1996

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