i could've sworn i heard fate whisper then along came the pressure it's no great mystery they said my name with the best of them by any standard i'll matched tones with the banshees if the keepsakes bound for the landfill and the rear view found a new home in a laminate y'all ain't even know the prerequisites time to dismantle with one phone call to your management by nature coddling an odd nurture put a rest to claims y'all god's favorites ain't here to give an explanation a ceaseless vigil on the daily touch of nightshade while i forsake my maker mayday i've seen them running in disguise as saviors trade pride for paper broke bread with the violators leave me in my isolation reveries of days gone grinning when the levee breaks same school they bend spoons to educate student of amusement filled a looseleaf watch me second guess like an honest conversation wouldn't resonate i'm so mother****ing tired i'm literally exhausted shook it off when the zealots came to bargain aged bourbon straight to let my ego do the talking a bleeding heart conveyed will be the offering a catalyst for disbelief suspension most friendships only convenient olive branch to eat with the heathens hit them with the silent treatment maudlin mondays detached on weekends sleeping on sunshine sentiment wrote this soapbox soliloquy for the last participant pleading howling through the evenings kill the cash cow for no reason and be that as it may i wouldn't have believed it either front the plain speak if y'all insist the trick is not minding if it's unappealing imprint or fade into oblivion with traces of myself judged by false witnesses i'll split the difference while i bump heads with the braindead 'til i'm livid under the weight of my own volition thumbing through the overlooked remnants err on the side of caution trauma bonding mistakes that's weighing on my conscience burned a hole through the image and came to let them know the creed a work a fiction