Manifesto

The priest, the poet, the man of science

Everlasting uncertainty and agitation

All fixed, fast frozen relations

With their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions are swept away

All new formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify

All that is solid melts into air

All that is holy is profaned

And man is at last compelled to face with sober senses

His real conditions of life

And his relations with his kind

I'm perplexed, flummoxed and vexed

Upset stomach and head thumping

Every next summits a test

And since I can't yet summon the strength

And they said fuck it and left like it meant nothing

I kept running to catch some of my breath

It went nuts like it's a public event

I'm becoming another regret for someone

It must have been something I said that wasn't what I intend

I contend against the stubborn reluctance to accept punishment under duress

My defenses are up once again

Cause where I come from, they come for your neck

So you best protect your jugular

I pump blood to my pen and vent to the homunculus under my bed

Wondering when I'll invent a marionette puppet to be my best buddy and friend

That only says things like I love you to death

And even my mother thinks I'm an insufferable son of a bitch

And doesn't like to cut at my jib

I'm cutting the strings and setting you free

Letting you be, get no relief

But the distant echoes of peace

Everyone leaves and then there was me

Left with the pieces like kettles to tea

My sense of esteem presents

Slow then crescendos and bellows and screams

Aaahhhh

It's always been me against the world

My back against the fence

And my defense upended

Curled in a fetal position

Defeated and beat to submission

Screaming to Jesus but he didn't listen

So a demon has risen and that's the reason

I've got no need for religion

I've got a deep-seated addiction that keeps people at distance

A tidal wave is rising and I won't make it through the night

I was just a child waiting for annihilation

Finding quiet hiding place inside the basement of my mind

So it's no surprise I thrive in isolation

I lie awake in icy caves

Hibernating writing wrongs on papyrus paper

The lines I've drawn to divide the side

I'm on while I fight my neighbors like they're strangers

If time erased their crimes I'd wipe the slate

But I can't shake the seismic quakes of these types of violent violations

Slay the giant, break the cycle, claim the title

Every phase is final, face it

I'm the latter half of agathokakological

And all of you are in a masterclass

The chronicle, the aftermath

I've been called impossible

The tacit facts, I'm horrible

And bad an actor as an acid bath

Awash in holy water

Holding crosses, hostage to a lack of tact

And subtract an apparatus that controls and modulates

The response I make to the fact that I'm responsible

For all that's wrong

And you're the harmless Ingénue

And I'm the heartless narcissist

That's hard to argue with

Oh, well aren't you cute

But I'm sorry boo, I thought you knew

Not to preach the gospel truth in an opera house

Where you lost the audience and walked the room

Never stop to watch your mouth

Or who you're talking to

I also sang the same old song as you

So you need not explain that I ought not

To croon an auto-tune

I cause a sonic boom that'll rock the room

And blow off the roof

My monster is demonstrative

That drama too provocative

Is solid proof positive

To all of you who never follow through

With the shots you threw