When I was younger shit was simpler, shit was harder, shit was complicated:
Fuck the world and everybody in it, check, but fuck this loneliness
Wanna change the world not watch it burn, or watch it burn and then
Transform it, fashion something not so stupid, not so fucking meaningless
When I was younger I was liberated, maybe, sure, but trapped:
Without the words to paint a picture of the cages in my head
And also terrified of seeing clearly, jesus what a mess
Much safer and less painful just to drown out all that loneliness.
No human being could connect with me like liquor could, I checked:
They're all so changeable and complicated, easily let down
And fucking cruel too, to boot, what's the matter with them
Me I had my two-four and my sack of weed, a break from being alone.
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