quiet intensity
Posted: November 20th, 2006, 9:46 pm
You want to drag me kicking and screaming into the real world
where panic and forlorn melancholy kick into high gear
and I sit and worry and peel back the pages of an old manuscript
that looks like it was written in braille
fingering the lettering I came upon a heightened awareness of
all that had gone wrong with the world
and I determined I would set it right in the next
chapter
I came along
a fresh faced girl with dreams glowing from eyes that lost
their sinister appeal
I apologize for not knowing any better
I was born that way
little mindless emblem of empty fucking
a quick tryst on a staggering night of fun
last of the line
lingering shadow
but
but
but I
made something of myself out of the utter nothingness
a fool with a penchant for inanity who seems a little
disconnected
a little disjointed from the rest of the
boys and girls
though I know
we're all the same
I am the shadow of the shadow of the shadow
of indifference
what do I care
I care
I care
I just react differently
when slapped in the face with it
quiet intensity
where panic and forlorn melancholy kick into high gear
and I sit and worry and peel back the pages of an old manuscript
that looks like it was written in braille
fingering the lettering I came upon a heightened awareness of
all that had gone wrong with the world
and I determined I would set it right in the next
chapter
I came along
a fresh faced girl with dreams glowing from eyes that lost
their sinister appeal
I apologize for not knowing any better
I was born that way
little mindless emblem of empty fucking
a quick tryst on a staggering night of fun
last of the line
lingering shadow
but
but
but I
made something of myself out of the utter nothingness
a fool with a penchant for inanity who seems a little
disconnected
a little disjointed from the rest of the
boys and girls
though I know
we're all the same
I am the shadow of the shadow of the shadow
of indifference
what do I care
I care
I care
I just react differently
when slapped in the face with it
quiet intensity