Satisfied

Smile while the towers fall
Never see a single cause at all
Walls come down all around you
Toast to the wilting of the young
Withering of friendships, say adieu
This mudslide's just begun

Never let the sign posts offend your eyes
Of everyone that needs you
Screaming for you to recognize
While you simply do what pleased you

Surround yourself with assenting voices
Ignore the results of all your choices
And just rationalize, drink yourself into a stupor
Never see what they can't depend upon you for

Drinking Poison

You take the poison in you
But don't eliminate the source
It doesn't let you help them
Just elongates the course

I see the ticks now digging deeper
Standing under your umbrella, to leave you in the rain
Accountability or improvement, they seek neither
While the blackness spreads within your veins

Happy to extend their curse to you
The ones you wish to save
But they won't stay behind to nurse you
Or even lay you in your grave

Pay the Piper

I watch horrified
As you slide the stiletto in your eye
Slit your own throat
Just for attention
Pour it into the moat
That's filled with our apprehension

Drink deep as the life blood slips away
And every waning day
You push the world away

What does it matter really?
As long as you think you're right?
No one can live your life
Not your children or your wife

As long as you're appeased
Do whatever that you please
Drink deep of this disease
And wonder why you're dying

Make the same mistakes
Time and time again
Alienate your friends
And ignore the children crying

Choose the ones to use you
While the others that will lose you
Wouldn't join the downward spiral
It's like they never cared at all
Those that walked away
From the piper that you pay

Are You Watching

Paint the walls with cheap graffiti
No need to put forth effort or even really try
Tell me that I'm pretty
So I can perpetrate the lie

Listen while I'm offended, by every little thing
Cuz being so contrary makes me interesting
No need to give back or listen
My gift to you is existing

Don't give a damn for your opinion
So you better listen close to mine
Rosin up the pity violin
Drag my nails across it while I whine

World take notice how I suffer
In my auto-bio-tragedy
Watch how strong I am, overcoming nothing
Just don't look at me

Performance

Slit your wrists upon the stage
So the world can watch you bleed
Be sure to stage the lights just right
So everyone can see

All around you, supporting actors
To your self made tragedy
If you life's become too simple
Invent some suffering

Arrange your position carefully
Self made victims are all the rage
Pretend the entire world is against you
And never act your age

Never accept fault
Always pass the blame
And grow smaller as the world moves on
While you remain the same