World On a String
World on a string
By Michelle Morris
23/11/2022
You want everyone to think
You've got the world on a string
But no one seems to realise
You're struggling with everything
All your parties and excess
Your fun and carefree attitude
Is a front for the dark reality that
You're in deeper than you should be
It's all about to blow up
Your world on a string facade
It's all about to show up
That you're scared and you're marked
One foot off the cliff, one foot in the grave
One foot off the mark, the rabbit's gonna give
One foot off the cliff, one foot in the grave
If you don't get your act together, your life is going to cave
You want everyone to think
You've got the world on a string
You're fooling yourself and them
While your life is falling in
Like Alice in Wonderland
You don't know up from down
If you're going to keep this up
You'll not live to steal the crown
What you want is yet to be determined
You don't seem to know anything at all
All your friends are helter-skelter
And there are gunmen at the door
One foot off the cliff, one foot in the grave
One foot off the mark, the rabbit's gonna give
One foot off the cliff, one foot in the grave
If you don't get your act together, your life is going to cave
One foot off the cliff, one foot in the grave
One foot off the mark, the rabbit's gonna give
One foot off the cliff, one foot in the grave
If you don't get your act together, your life is going to cave
© Michelle Morris, 2022
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