Nothing Else Can Hurt Me

In my dreams, why can't I run fast

Away from these demons of my young past

Chasing some freedom and I'll run back

A slave to allegiance of my dumb ass

Pacing through regions where I'm foreign, native

If I'm my ancestors' dreams then they weren't creative

Used to seek every turn up like a rutabaga

I stay busy, buried waiting for the fruits of labor

Alone in a crowded room of loved ones and friendly neighbors

Alienated by my misbehavior

An atheist but I always feel insanely favored

Match the fire in my belly when I'm chasing paper

Burn it down with the flick of a tongue

Don't ask for permission, the forgiveness will come

It's half superstition, half a sip of the rum

Man, I have intuition, no particulars done

Platter of my vision, I just pick at the crumbs

We were down by a triple, but I dipped when I dunked

I don't really have a methodology

I'm pretty lucky cuz life hasn't been too hard on me

Here's my biography this part it has to start first

I mean my parents did the hard work

And now I'm living in the hereinafter

I never open up so this story might skip some chapters

I'm an enemy of hope but a friend of laughter

Neck descending from the rope, lift me to the rafters

Positive affirmations

To get up out of this fog I've gotta have some patience

Journal into my log my pen it writes itself

The things I do instead of asking for advice and help

Rising three times if it's only twice I fell

A steady decline, one of these my final L

The skeletons in my closet get taxidermy

You tell the joke and I'll be laughing early

You tell the joke and I'll be laughing surely

I'll tell the joke so I'm certain nothing else can hurt me

Certain nothing else can hurt me

I tell the joke so I'm certain nothing else can hurt me

Certain nothing else can hurt me

Certain, certain