A Brief Life

Walked in and out of the men’s room.

Are those stones that I see in bloom?

Had a second of euphoria,

now I’m ready for the gloria.

You’re still locked inside the cage,

you’re still at that tender age

where friendship is still powerful,

and justice still seems doable.

The written word is in your face,

once out there it can’t be erased.

You have a problem with that?

Let us just discuss the facts.

The disgrace is always external

but no one believes in the Eternal.

Hard to tell who’s the real victim

when they all kneel to the system.

Keep knocking on the men’s room door.

Is it them who you abhore?

They will keep on being born

but half of them will be scorned.

Why do some things remain hidden

while brotherhood is forbidden?

When I think of you

I remember why I left you. 

I couldn’t wait to see you. 

And when I did see you, 

I couldn’t wait to see you again. 

I didn’t know if I’d see you again 

or when. 

I know it’s hard to understand, 

but the pain was just so grand

when I wanted to see you. 

The truth is now I miss you.

But I already missed you

before I left you.

You wish she was like me,

you wish she had my eyes.

The apple fell far from the tree.

It’s sad to see her as she tries.

You know you need me desperately.

Why can’t you just accept me?

Our bond’s broken indefinitely.

You better just forget me.

Hell knows no fury

like a woman’s fury.

You cannot simply judge me,

you cannot be my jury.

Forget me, stay away from me.

Your perspective’s blurry.

If you dare just come and get me.

Hell knows no fury.

I’m not afraid of madness,

it’s everybody’s common ground.

Soon it will all be darkness.

I can see the stormy clouds.

Oh yes, the storm is coming.

Listen to the devil’s drumming.

See the clouds now, grey and dark,

behind them, an evil hierarch.

It’s here, it’s finally here.

Let it come, I’m not afraid.

I will no longer live in fear.

Let the storm swipe me away.

You can’t escape the madness.

You can’t escape the noise.

The night swallows me with blackness,

it devours and destroys.

I suddenly feel the weight

of my unpredictable fate.

I hear the future at my door.

It knocks like it hasn’t before.

Oh yes, it’s destiny.

It’s right before you, can’t you see?

It has the eyes you imagined,

in them you see your own passion.

You’ve brothered

through a different kind of blood.

You’ve bonded

through something beyond love.

What lies beneath it you can’t see.

You stand before your destiny.

It is in you that I project

my deepest expectations.

After your love declarations

all I had was your neglect.

Is it yours or is it mine?

Whose disappointment is it?

You do nothing but dismiss it,

and there I have to draw the line.

Now and then I think of you.

Now and then you think of me.

That’s all there is, it’s true.

That’s all there is.

I couldn’t live up to you.

You couldn’t live up to me.

That’s all there is, it’s true.

That’s all there is.

Flowers won’t bloom under cement.

It’s gone now, the time badly spent.

Oh, yes, I knew it all along.

They could never prove me wrong.

Through many different lenses

I can’t come to my senses.

The truth becomes distorted

Is that what’s been reported?

I knew it all along.

I could feel it, oh so strong.

Locked in I spoke truths to myself.

My own manifesto’s on the shelf.

I knew it all along, so what?

I can be wrong, I can be right.

Millions out there just like me.

Millions alone stuck to the screen.

All the lies will they admit them?

Who’ll report the crimes committed?

The lies were indeed transmitted.

Can’t believe what we permitted.

Someone surely benefited.

I saw everything quite nitid.

I knew it all along.

I could feel it, oh so strong.

Locked in I spoke truths to myself.

My own manifesto’s on the shelf.

I knew it all along, so what?

I can be wrong, I can be right.

Millions out there just like me.

Millions alone stuck to the screen.

When I found you

I would have left everything

simply to be around you,

to surround you

with my everything.

It’s not meant to be, it’s wrong.

You’re just not for me, it’s wrong.

However, this is what I want.

However, I want you forever.

Forever, I want you forever.

I want your everything,

I want your forever.

I’ll be your everything,

I’ll be your forever.

You can say I’m wrong,

but this is what I want.

I want your forever.

I’ll be your forever.

I’ve been around, that’s how I know.

I know I want you forever.

I want your everything,

I want your forever.

I’ll be your everything,

I’ll be your forever.

You can say I’m wrong,

but this is what I want.

I want your forever.

I’ll be your forever.

I can’t get over the shame

of our mutual confessions.

Now it’ll never be the same.

We’re done with those transgressions.

We have so much in common.

It’s like we’re living the same life.

I don’t know what’s going on.

Can cut the tension with a knife.

The lust, the shameful lust,

the lust of a lifetime,

blew me away in sudden gusts,

a gust of wind over the fire line.

You say you’re negative to me.

Likewise, I’m negative to you.

Because to you I’m just a sin.

I’m everything that is sinful.

The lust, the shameful lust,

the lust of a lifetime,

blew me away in sudden gusts,

a gust of wind over the fire line.

I’ve offered you the best

the best I could ever give.

You’ve put me to the test.

What you’ve done I can’t forgive.

You bring out the worst in me

even though I’ve done you good.

You just make me so combative.

I’ve unmasked your falsehood.

If you and me can never be

then there’s no hope, no hope for love.

What’s good in me you’ll never see.

For you I’m just unworthy of.

Human nature is to destroy

However bad, it is,

has been and will be

humanity’s greatest joy.

Your ego is too high,

Your self esteem too low.

You’re cruel, you’re dry, you can’t deny

that all you want is to control.

You think the worst of yourself.

You know, maybe you’re right.

You’re just a failure, you say.

That pessimism you won’t fight.

If you and me can never be

then there’s no hope, no hope for love.

What’s good in me you’ll never see.

For you I’m just unworthy of.

Human nature is to destroy

However bad, it is,

has been and will be

humanity’s greatest joy.

Your ego is too high,

Your self esteem too low.

You’re cruel, you’re dry, you can’t deny

that all you want is to control.