Two friends are walking away,
just scattered ashes off some lakeside,
now total strangers alone
just smoking weed and cracking jokes.
It’s been two decades and change:
they both look different but still the same.
One pulled away and retreated,
the other ran as fast as light.
Now this is all
no matter how far you’ve gone
—childish bullshit controls you.
Really tryna make it again
even after fighting and talking shit.
Now you‘ve got a couple of kids
yeah, your wife’s always hated me.
Partly why I ran so far—
I was mostly too scared to react.
Ran away and started again,
forgot to write you back into my life.
So this is it.
Since this just how far I’ve come,
childish banter consumes you.
Wreckage!
I’ve caused the colossus
to buckle beneath its own!
Now I just dwell in my failure
pretending the ignorance heals all wounds.
Exhaustion
canyons mess.
Self-sabotage. Self-sabotage.
So this is it—since this just how far I’ve come,
it’s happening.
This childish banter consumes you.
credits
from You Are A Citizen,
released December 13, 2019
Lyrics by D. Diaz
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