Man Down the Road

from Self Effacer by Quote

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Man Down The Road

If I work more than six days
My whole mind begins to change
Every pattern just gets stuck
Dull as an infected cut
Every hour forms a chain
Buying tomorrows with todays
And if one goes off the edge
Borrow your way closer to death

There’s a man lives down the road
And he hardly leaves his home
After work if you’re that way
A light comes through the window pane
It’s his television’s glow
A schizophrenic puppet show
And if you walk by every day
I guarantee you’ll see no change

I've got some big ambitions
Man I’ve got places to go
Got a future waiting for me
Got my hands around its throat
I've got some big things to balance
For my mind and soul and health
But it doesn’t really matter because they’re owned by someone else

I’m a parasitic colony
A know extortionist
If the world was clean and perfect
I would just cease to exist
I’m going to fight my way through college
On the day I graduate
I will buy back all the years I lost
And set the record straight.