smile
frown
upside-down
u-turn
screw-turn
burn around so
what've i got
i got
i got?
i've got a brain that's full of rot
a mind that's back in black and bored
of hanging on this prison cord
so what've i got
i got
i got?
it's what i want that i have not
it's what i see and smell and feel
that i'm not sure is even real so
rise above it
love it
shove it
isn't that the secret of it?
thus i'm pacing, oh the pacing
commonplace to brace while racing
and i'm constantly defacing
falling further out of grace because i
go too fast
go too slow for what you want
hell, i don't know
what's right or wrong or good or bad
'cause all i know is what i've had to
be and feel and fight and do
and all i'm sure i know i knew
i pledge allegiance to myself
to me and i and no one else
and to the things for which i stand
but under no one, god nor man
i am divided in and out
so out of it i'm in myself
i shout
"i'm free"
and so i'll be
with liberty for none but me.