I don't thinknYou understandnJust how pettynI can bennSome say tonForgive and forgetnBut why notnHave a bit of funnBefore I have tonHang up my onlynChance for revengennThis is the diseasenNot the curenThat lies upon every wordnAnd strangles the innocentnWith an overzealous tonguenTo speak in codesnWhere the keynLies withinnA shameful bitnOf callow infancynnDon't tell menHow you think I shouldnPretend to benJust take whatnI give you and hopenThat I will not benSo generous next timennI am on anGoddamn rampagenTo humor younWith the attentionnI know you deservenI just wantnTo make somenFucking noisenAnd is thatnSo very wrong?nnWe'll simply lightnOurselves aflamenSo we can shinenAnd pretend to benThe starsnWe once hadnThe audacity to thinknWe could reachnnAnd so I fallnAnd so I fallnBack to the earthnAs a damned pilenOf listless ashnWishing thatnI could havenFanned my flamesnSo that this cursednI could havenBecome a wennCopyright 2009 Brian The Magician Lovejoy