Cut Corners on Short Walks

The sour substances that make up my hind brain Have slowly become stagnant and I have surely become insane And the anger I feel in my veins Has stopped pouring out of the hole in my face And remains in my stained ribcage Broken by 14 with no chance for absolution 'Cause they refused to open their minds' eye And see we too were human We were searching for joy with apophatic conclusions We started savouring apathy and all of our bruises And the songs we sung when our minds were done And our lungs bled, our tongues said, "We're done with the humdrum" We used to be so pure, so fragile and raw But now we set campfires in car parks and cut corners on short walks Well, out of the flames we reclaimed our decay And the world became a stage, complete chaotic, how we played And cryptic visions of us disposing of ourselves became Sordid depictions of disposable wealth And the songs we sung when our minds were done And our lungs bled, our tongues said, "We're done with the humdrum" We used to be so pure, so fragile and raw But now we set campfires in car parks and cut corners on short walks Then she laid me down whilst I was in a drunken stupor And she took my hand and she forced me to use her For things I desired not for My friend was asleep on the floor I would ask myself constantly "Am I remembering that right?" A paralytic memory, hazy daze of a night Was I truly destroyed by an imperfect person? Was I just co-opting the curses of coercion? Well, after that event, my hair grew out, matted and frayed Like a rope you'd have to cut and burn to make usable again But to assess my temperament, oh, the contours of my skull I shaved off all my hair and saw I still could be well And the songs we sung when our minds were done And our lungs bled, our tongues said, "We're done with the humdrum" We used to be so pure, so fragile and raw But now we set campfires in car parks and cut corners on short walks The light in my eyes Reignited with a vengeance When I saw the sunrise Around a campfire with my best friends The light in my eyes Reignited with a vengeance When I saw the sunrise Around the campfire with my best friends And the songs we sung when our minds were done And our lungs bled, our tongues said, "We're done with the humdrum" We used to be so pure, so fragile and raw But now we set campfires in car parks and cut corners on short walks