Levi The Poet
Oh Captain, My Captain!
STEP OUT THE FRONT DOOR FRIEND!
TOSSED UP MY KEYS,
From here here on out, I'm gonna do whatever it is I please.
Just outside of this thickening window is a world full of opportunity,
For me and you, and
You and me.
But I fell into that same flawed fantasy that detaching myself from Daddy’s bedtime stories and
Mommy's singing me to sleep is gonna be the key that's gonna set me free.
But you want out so badly right now baby girl
But just you wait and see
How much you miss our mom and dad
Once you finally get the chance to leave.
I wanna go home to my own bed tonight to sleep and cuddle with my puppy.
I MISS MY PUPPY!
I wanna make-believe that she is a girl sleeping next to me like I used to,
When I was lonely,
Like I was lucky enough to have somebody there next to me to keep me company when I woke up in the morning and hold me
But now I’m
[Singing]
Buried in the arms of someone else and missing mother’s
And I miss the weathered hands of my dad while holding tightly to my lover's.
And we call this
Free
[Speaking]
But now, I'm eighteen baby! You wanna see my I.D.?
I'm gonna buy my own cigarettes!
In fact, two packs please.
Two packs for the two years I already ran myself broke.
And two more for the two more I’m gonna count on these to cope.
I’ll take
Two packs for the two days that I’m planning on being away, I'll
Smoke ‘em both on the first so that on the second
I can give my lungs a break.
Ah that was the plan anyway, hah.
Oh my god is that a two-for-one deal on the 27’s you know,
On second thought,
I better just get two more in case on that second day when I wake, I decide to smoke all eight.
But a Captain and Coke would go so nicely right now
Because I have been
Drinkin' a little to try to forget about the fact that I’ve been
Drinkin' a little to try to forget about the fact that I’ve been
Drinkin' a little to try to forget about the fact that I
Drink a lot.
And actually forgot about the fact that I'm down.
And it's funny how perspectives change so quickly
when you’re the one with your head beneath that toilet seat, wearing the crown on your feet
And as I lift up my head from that bathroom sink I
Sink into the mirror and scream,
“YOU DON’T KNOW ME!!!”
AND PAUL SAID IT PERFECTLY, “I AM THE WORST OF THESE.”
But every now and then I swear to God I got that guy beat.
And I used to be such a fan of abstract poetry
But that quiet, clouded, kind of confusing painting went from a
Diluted gray-scale to vibrant honesty pretty quickly,
And in fact I’m a little sickly,
And in fact I’m a little scared sometimes that this is all gonna be in vain.
With a million little me's just running around all of eternity it’s no wonder my hope has such a bad name.
But I know no matter how large a hypocrite, or how small my faith.
When you started to talk about perfection,
The way you talked about my pain,
[Left Side]
YOU BECAME THE SEED INSIDE THAT GAVE ROOT TO CHANGE!
I pray that there is power in prayer and I hope with all my heart that I will find you there.
You're bigger than my skepticism,
How dare I compare the high I prescribe with that beauty.
I AM THE SKELETON IN A LITTLE FRAGILE SKIN AND-
[Right Side]
You became the seed inside that gave root to change.
And I pray that there's gonna be power in prayer and,
I hope with all my heart that you will find me there,
And if you're bigger than my skepticism then
How dare I compare the high I prescribe with that beauty you prepare.
I AM THE SKELETON IN A LITTLE FRAGILE SKIN AND-