He Still Insists He Sees The Ghosts

music and lyrics - Patrick Allen

Stretched and strained of simple mind
too fah-ahr gone to process
I feel your consolation
through the sting of talking's carress
If this latest assault is not
enough to make your h-head sway
then know fate's stammer forms a sign:
There's nothing left to s-s-say

The seal l-l-lies broken
The fuse blown past forgotten
Aging thoughts of purity
count days until they're r-r-rotten
I bla-hame what cccccannot
be proven or discounted
Evi-vidence looms inside
the darkness that has m-m-mounted

I pound my fists again
towards the ones who will not hear
I shout a p-plea again
And yet I cannot say it
I pound my fists again
until my-yigh hand s-starts bleeding
I stand and run again
yet never feel I'm fleeing

There's no comfort in chaos
yet reason leads to madness
I know the answer c-c-calls me
but no voice breaches sadness
Ca-hristened at the bottom
to re-each heights unknowing
offers little comfort when I
know not which w-w-way I'm going

You cannot u-hunderstand
how m-much I wish to b-b-break
I'm allergic to your sympathy
and sneeze so hard my shoulders ache
The s-se-eal lies broken
The fuse now blown in two
My mind leaks its cont-tents slowly
quite afraid of what they'll do

I pound my fists again
towards the ones who will not hear
I s-sh-shout a plea again
And yet I cannot say it
I pound my f-fists again
until my ha-and starts b-bleeding
I turn to run again
yet never feel I'm fleeing

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