On Contradiction

We are all tethered, we are all torn from our stations
And left here to weather that never does what it should.

In somebody’s house in somebody’s kitchen refrigerator, spot somebody’s picture.
You’ve never seen and probably never will but still, you steal.

Stay in my mind, I need someone to recall.
Stay as you were, when you leaned in the light of the hall.

stop swallowing glass just to cough up some blood for attention.
stop smiling at me, as if to say, you proved me wrong and its all ok, well its not.

You start to choke cause you hate cigarettes
Mostly you know this sometimes you forget.
Well it starts to add up like a bad debt follows you.

Stay in my mind, I need someone to recall.
Stay as you were, when you leaned in the light of the hall.
Stay still I need to know where you are.
Stay near, my memory fails when you’re far.

They march through this town like a circus parade
Ransack the gullible, set fires, get paid.
And all through the streets a commotion is made
But when you look the next day, nothing has changed here at all.