dinsdag 4 februari 2025

To hell

Big words are easy when you have power.
Mouths run easy when you feel safe.
Protection that will cost you by the hour.
No one will tell you how to behave.
(Shame)

That spit flies easy if you're on the mountain.
Sleep as long as the distance between them.
I'm sure you spend your time lying.
I spend them dreaming of the end.
(Not mine)

And when it's you staring down the barrel of a gun
Do you think: “Oh we had a great run”?
Do you think: “Oh but we had so much fun”?
“Wonder if I can take my money along.”
(To hell)

Soul

It starts
Like it always starts. 
Open hearts, 
Pushed down.
What was the moment
We fell
Down into the pits, 
Hard into the well?
Dirth rising above us.
Swallowing, teeth bared.
I can hear them shouting.
See those who cared,
Turned their backs
In silence.
Walk away like violence.

And things are always 
Escalating, always, always,
Always violating.
I can't escape that.
And I won't try to.
It's leaving people behind.
Can't carry them in my mind,
And I need you, 
I need you, 
I need you to
Understand.

You try to steal our rainbow,
Try to steal our light.
To lose us in the beating. 
A perpetual night.
I feel lost without them.
I feel lost in the loss.
So alone
In the loud,
Loud sound of stone,
Rising up where once 
The colourful people 
Danced.
Now a farewell dance.
Now a dance with dead.

Nothing will stop us,
But you want to try,
See if you can.
And I can't lie.
My tears flow to freely
For that, For them.
You come with the tide.
Like a flood,
I just need to ebb.
You're a lot.
But you're not enough.
To stop.
To stop.
To stop
The coming rage. 
The coming storm.
Are you done?