Thanks Dad, Sorry Mom

If pain is a mind state then I'm trapped in Texas With an empty bottle of Percocet And a wrinkled brow folded with regret Shadow displaying a slouched silhouette With curse words behind me and a casted off taken for granted sunset Teeth chattering, from amnesia Living a moment my memory with dilute Atrophied tongue, with a swollen ankle and a pair of crutches For a pair of feet touching a yellow brick substitute Floating from the numbness while the moths keep hitting near my light bulb I got an IV of life and more tape on me then a broken window Bladder paralyzed, the sunshine peels my fermented skin Bolts in my kneecap, wrench in the trash Tyler Dirten's laughing Eggs for breakfast and lost time for dessert But these children keep hatching My eyes look like raccoons, flesh under my nails And blood on my pillow from the scratching This is life, this is life, it's so fun This is life, this is life, I have none This is life, this is life, it's so fun This is life, this is life, I have none I took a leap of faith and they found me on the rocks My clock doesn't tick it's just a bunch of tocks I'm going here and there, but I'm standing still The people walk on by just looking for a thrill They're looking here and there to rise above the dim They don't even realize they have to look within To ride your highs and endure your lows As long as coasting nothing will change that's just the way it goes Now, forewarned is forearmed but I only have two Ones usually in a cast and deflated lungs got me feeling blue Pliers on molars, assistant holding my tongue back Teeth falling out but I'll never get a gum graph Hospital rooms echo with silence And to make a living I slave in the basement Yawning in doctors' offices, painting myself with patience Let my retinas constrict to the glow Slit me ear to ear and watch my smile grow There's paper cranes in the sky and metal birds making clouds Almost had my life paid for Now I'm wrapped in a blanket of shame but my parents are still proud Everyone else is a landmine for heartbreak But I keep stepping on backs with a bloody knee And my ears ringing from the explosions And I keep a brace around my Achilles Cause I don't like babies and never trusted a Trojan And when my voice gets hoarse from the yelling I strap a saddle on until laryngitis takes full effect Gallop off the cliff and ride into the ocean until my scalp is wet I took a leap of faith and they found me on the rocks My clock doesn't tick it's just a bunch of tocks I'm going here and there, but I'm standing still The people walk on by just looking for a thrill They're looking here and there to rise above the dim They don't even realize they have to look within To ride your highs and endure your lows As long as coasting nothing will change that's just the way it goes This is life, this is life, it's so fun This is life, this is life, I have none This is life, this is life, it's so fun