(Sage Francis) It's time to rethink every fact is imaginable Survival instinct dwells in a past that is I happen to pull fast ones over the parole board Who likes to speak to wolves who cry sheep Time into our skin, age indicates how long we've been lost in space I keep expression-less upon my face An awful waste of human skin who waits for to begin My fall grace, will do me in too late (I'm out of seasoning) No spring chicken, summer novel writer could win a prize It's Nobel, go to hell in a riding that he winterized I change my mind more often than my Abide and other nonsense I'm an orphan who comes from I am a sign from God! For the misguided
(And I know...) State is not an ocean, not an island, not a If I don't know where I come How do I where to go? It's not where from, not where you're at It's your going... and I am going home (And I know...) State is not an ocean, not an island, not a If I don't where I come from How do I where to go? It's not where you're from, not where at It's your going... and I am going home...
...to where? The land of the lost Feeling the loneliness that only exists in abandoned foster homes How many images of missing kids can be fit onto a milk Framed, starting to look the same Starting to say his name, and claim As if found HIM! The strangest kids surrounding the circle of false friendship Rings of are connected at the elbow Cause they're tired, moms let go The light component that keeps there unit cohesive It's the music! So we give reasons to get experiences to hum to These play Red Rover? I look for weaknesses to run through With reckless abandon, they're standin', to go down The pinballs in their machine between abusive homes now If its fight or flight, they'll just choose to throw Ain't nothing like a dead horse, riding it through a ghost town I move with no sound... I to think I was invisible Til they stopped me and said "I think I a picture of you..." that, I said "Nah I just got one of them faces Placed next to an expiration that changes. I of look familiar, my name is on the tip of your tongue The lost look on my makes you play dumb. Say colloquial I need to get my bearings and a for where I'm at but you ain't that. They shout "freeze!" I'm a tourist trapped by Who put bounties on armies and all counties I bounce, I hear them shout "Someone us out, PLEASE!" all alone in the foster home Killin' with the house keys... Not every broken can come equipped with a fix-it man And it's a smelly mess the shit hits the fan Kids just stand in their circle with there dicks in the sand Saying "FUCK THE WORLD" cause they got no girl But who do think I am? again, I'm not that quick to plan ahead of time I'm two steps behind schedule, they pretend to have read my mind I think they just misread the lines in the of my hand Cause, random scars caused from slap boxin' with landlords I ran with the dogs till I realized were all mutts Turned bitch once the dog caught up Forced into trucks, boarded up, put to sleep in the Being an orphan sucks, but I'm through with around I see my posted up on street lights And telephone poles, from what they show it like I never grow old, from what they show it seems I never go home, and that doesn't seem Cause won't let me grow...
And this is where go to avoid the sunrays and the of subways Emerging introverted, and unshaved I feel rewarded offering a fee that I know no one will pay
And is where some go to the sunrays and the noise of subways Emerging introverted, and unshaved I've got personalities and my inner children are runaways
(And I know...) State is not an ocean, not an island, not a If I know where I come from How do I where to go? not where you're from, not where you're at It's your going... and I am going home... To the of the lost souls Feeling a loneliness that only exists in abandoned foster homes
I feel rewarded offering a finder's fee that I no one will pay I've got multiple personalities and my inner are runaways I feel rewarded a finder's fee that I know no one will pay I've got multiple personalities and my children are runaways I feel rewarded offering a finder's fee I know no one will pay I've got multiple personalities and my children are runaways... (kids shouting end)