A Day In The Mind

Pain and grief flows deep inside the rivers

That pour out of my pretty eyes

I pray my people don't vilify the trigger

If I leave fingerprints on my own demise

I keep falling way too often

Off a broken bridge I build on brittle lies

And I'm running out of places to hide

Girl I try and try

But how long can I fight 'til the feeling eats me up alive?

Feel the paranoia seep between the broken lines

Pondering, questioning, I'm juxtaposed in opposing minds

Blind to my blessings

Idle and stressed about dreams

I sleep with an open eye

Open wounds? I rub them in salt and let them soak in time

Chasing visions with an open mind

Open views, open doors, open gaps I hope to close

Heaven knows I been putting my legs to good use but

I cannot outrun the truth

My mama warned me about the weight of a weary mind

A precious thought is closely parallel to a pair of nines

My mental mine was vacant

So complacent with status quo till I stumbled

On a bait that had me paying up petty change in my paradigm

A pegasus holding a spare pair of wings

Promising he could spare me a place in hell if I dared to fly

"Sell them the sky and then repossess it"

Predecessors did they best to warn me

I did my best to avoid the signs

Bob and weaving I'm boxing demons, Mama

They keep biting On my ears, Holyfield, I'm bleeding, Mama

I hear whispers In my head and it sound like treason, Mama

I keep praying all I get Is the silent treatment, Mama this

Slithering serpent Is waving his wicked tongue

And I think I'm finally failing to not believe him Mama

Say what you want but a series of mind fucks

Have been painfully penetrating my physiological armour

Feel the paranoia seep between the broken lines

Pondering, questioning, I'm juxtaposed in opposing minds

Blind to my blessings

Idle and stressed about dreams

I sleep with an open eye