Tiptoeing down the vacant street
I see him drumming to an unknown beat
I see the stripper, powerful and free
The filmmaker who cannot see
The bravery of a homeless outcast
Who doesn't dwell on his distressing past
Staring through the windowpane
All I am is a fading stain
A deadbeat guitar that I no longer tune
Please tell me that I'm leaving soon
Making peace with the cigarette smoke
Watching the one who's addicted to coke
The sex mean nothing, it's broken and still
The blood drips down from the windowsill
Don't demonstrate learnings
With unheeded warnings
The chair bolted to the floor of tin
Becomes the throne of a brilliant shut-in
I stare at the pill bottles that litter the ground
Whisper to me there there isn't any sound
The paint spills all over the floor
Attic torture, it's time for your tour
A hermit of suburban life
All you want is a silent wife
Acid brings steam to the air
The rock music that I blare
From the speakers in my head
The stereo is never dead
I left behind a legacy that's empty
The disciples all drank good and plenty
The books that never make any sense
My future's transforming into past tense
Random thoughts on the battlefield
My chronicled fate has always been sealed
Propaganda in a media paycheck envelope
Teenagers surviving on their day-to-day dope
In the Garden of Eden I wear a blindfold
There is no paradise is what I was told
They savor death, the trench coat clique
Your lighter's burning my candlewick
I want to see the irony ignite
Everyone knows your evident plight
I see too many enter that reality
Into that norm we've named normality
Tragic attempts to fix a thought
A war that can no longer be fought
Grab the mind, make an effect
Now it's time to disrespect
The silent messiah of a poet's mind
But in the end everyone's blind
Except the ones from the foundation
I will grant you initiation
Because of your abstract visualization
I give you all free salvation
But the confined walls are closing in
Look to me for inspiration
Bang Bang; life in this room
Bang Bang; it's becoming my tomb
During the day I try my hardest
In this life of a Dying Artist
