in two-thousand ten I'm Choking on a Ghost |
Jeremy Shannon |
in 2010 I'm choking on a ghost
and I wish I could remember the 80s
Hell is the prison we fear in youth
and Heaven is solitary confinement
we've been born into jail cells
where guards warn of stockings full of coal
and there's free medication with every meal
to tackle the anxiety of the twenty-somethings
Prozac, Zoloft, Valium, Xanax
chlordiazepoxide
in 2010 I'm choking on a ghost
and I wish I could remember the 90s
each aborted embryo, another soul saved
Western waste avoided
constantly cursing our crumbling caverns of cold-hearted consent
and solving the problem of social starvation
by chugging beers and ripping butts
forgetting the things we forgot to forget
love, art, morality
check
in 2010 I'm choking on a ghost
and I've already forgotten the early 2000s
hard times are getting harder
and all I want to do is sleep
and I wish I could remember the 80s
Hell is the prison we fear in youth
and Heaven is solitary confinement
we've been born into jail cells
where guards warn of stockings full of coal
and there's free medication with every meal
to tackle the anxiety of the twenty-somethings
Prozac, Zoloft, Valium, Xanax
chlordiazepoxide
in 2010 I'm choking on a ghost
and I wish I could remember the 90s
each aborted embryo, another soul saved
Western waste avoided
constantly cursing our crumbling caverns of cold-hearted consent
and solving the problem of social starvation
by chugging beers and ripping butts
forgetting the things we forgot to forget
love, art, morality
check
in 2010 I'm choking on a ghost
and I've already forgotten the early 2000s
hard times are getting harder
and all I want to do is sleep
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License