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We Won't Be Fooled Again
by Jason Gastrich
January 27, 2012
Popularity is fleeting
People want to laugh
They also love a hero
Check out the funky graph
What do you want?
What can you obtain?
Which handful of things
Will keep us insane?
What if you worked hard
And got what you sought?
What if you set aside
All that could be bought?
Could all the incompletions
Squeeze you until you rot?
When your future depends
On the integrity of the 12,
How do you really live?
If the framework is contingent
On what just one will give,
It might mean protecting myself
With a homemade, prison style shiv.
But people aren't that dumb and
They don't like being laughed at.
Imagine watching your life pass
Before you while you meekly sat.
Having distant thoughts of you
Shirtless wearing your Fender hat.
My first and hopefully only
criminal trial
Is the biggest trial of my so-called life
At 6am, when they broke my door down,
They separated me, my angel and my wife
A belligerent neighbor, a psychotic father
And a system who likes being paid
Have thrown me for a loop and I can't
Even focus on fun or getting laid
I'm in a dark cloud and it's a funky
Black mire
I'm reaching through the din and
Walking on a tight wire
Why me? Why now? What is this
city
Trying to say?
I grew up here and owned this town
But it turned on me, turned me upside down
I find myself at a new juncture
of sorts, but
She was abducted and hypnotized and it hurts
Families have to fight hard to
Keep their unit intact
People and even parents pick on them,
You know it's pretty wack
It's too damn bad we couldn't
have been one
We enjoyed so much together, so much fun
I didn't know we needed to be different or more
I didn't know we were being played by a crazy manwhore
How much stress should one
person have to endure?
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