The Great "Ism​-​Schism" Shuffle

No receipt investigation

Working hard, perfectionism goes right through you

Optimism misses this but pessimism never wins

No time for reason, just be okay, okay

Not okay

And I like the way you take me out for a while

Make me forget just to remember

What I am, anyway

Mannerisms mechanize

Into patterns you don't like

And so I follow like a dog

Howling out until I'm hollow

Narcissism takes your hand

Blindsides expectation as I

Look upon the burning traffic

Hands up, turn around

Bound in a collision crisis

Morals dictate that I mean it

Skepticism says that I'm not sorry

Why don't you feel it?

Why not turn back time for me?

You think you're so heroic, don't you?

I guess I can't take the criticism

Caught in the ism-schism

Forget the realism

I'll never let it go