death’s dynamic shroud
Rocking Chair Song
Well I thought it was nothing
But somehow that nothing wasn't it
And I want you to listen
But I'm just a dime-a-dozen angry white man
So who really gives a shit?
Instilled as a child
That something must be special in my head
I imagined it like a museum, but it was not
It was something else instead
Just something else instead
With untenable pockets
I panicked in work debt slavery
I can wear an idiot smile like
The ones in romantic comedies
And I don't wanna have to kill them
I don't wanna have to kill them
But I will
No, I don't wanna have to kill them
I don't wanna have to kill them
But I will
(But I will)
So I realized a vision where
I played the piano on a stage
And the president smirked at my precious idealism
Just a monkey in a different kind of cage
And I appreciate my genetics
I know my bone structure isn't bad
But I'm as paranoid as my mother
And just as narcissistic as my dad
And I don't wanna have to kill you
I don't wanna have to kill you
But I will
No, I don't wanna have to kill you
I don't wanna have to kill you
But I will
And I don't wanna have to kill you
I don't wanna have to kill you, but I will
No, I don't wanna have to kill you
I don't wanna have to kill you, but I will
I had a dream where
I carried this rage inside my hands
Inside a house I’d never been to, there stood a stranger
A mostly unmemorable man
Without any warning
I picked up a wooden rocking chair
I slammed it into his body, over and over and over
Until all of his skin began to tear
But I had no intention of stopping
I continued until everything was red
And my brain censored the violence, as he slowly flattened
'Til I could no longer see his head
And that’s when I heard all the sirens
Blaring outside in the street
So I ran into the kitchen and grabbed the nearest blade
And I began to slice it through my own meat
Deeper and deeper and deeper, over and over and over
I dragged it into intersecting lines
Up and down both my arms as I tried to escape them
But my body just wouldn’t let me die
My body wouldn’t let me die
My body wouldn’t let me die
My body wouldn’t let me die
My body wouldn’t let me die
My body wouldn’t let me die
My body wouldn’t let me die
My body wouldn’t let me die
My body wouldn’t let me die
They said, "Honey, save me from yourself"
"Save me from yourself, honey"
"Honey, save me from yourself"
"Save me from yourself, honey"
They said, "Honey, save me from yourself"
"Save me from yourself, honey"
"Honey, save me from yourself"
"Save me from yourself, honey"