symptoms:

Fuck genius. What’s an artist? Dead words devoid of meaning. Let’s drop them.
I know where they can go, but your neck is blocking the hole. Let’s start from zero.
Now, listen close.
This is a rip: “The scream that ignites the world?”
We’re slaves to radios. We’re not worth shit to talk to.
This is the pen that won’t cauterize the wound. Whose plan to follow?
It feels like your own. It’s an insult. You’ve fallen for it.
It feels like your own. It’s your anthem, as jaded as its source.
The anemic. The pale, the sullen. An albumis evidence. I believed that shit.
Here, stuck in radios. No one’s worth shit to talk to. These were my heroes.
Now they’re all jokes.
This is a rip. ‘The scream that ignites the world?”
We’re slaves to radios. We’re not worth shit to talk to.
This is the pen that won’t cauterize the wound. Whose plan to follow?
It feels like your own. Itis an insult. You’ve fallen for it.
It feels like your own. It’s your anthem, as jaded as its source.
The ceiling is waiting.
And you follow like it mattered if you did.
And it dropped you on your head cuz you took yourself for granted.
Heartless and headstrong. Jump right over the bodies. Life’s a race. It’s an obstacle course.
Hide, but you’ll never have a choice when you go.
They would have noticed you if they had known, but you’re fucked.
They’ll only love you when you’re gone,
or barely hanging on to all your organs and dignity while you’re rotting in hospitals.
Don’t believe it? It’s not your fault. You’re just worthless. You’re one in a million.
Where is god? The ornament,
the holiday song whored out on reading materials in latrines and porta-johns?
Don’t believe this.
You’re not worthless. It’s us against millions and we can’t take them all.
But we can take them on.

A Wilhelm Scream - The Rip

Give me back my pictures of me.
Me, you, and him that makes three.
It figures the wheezing will measure your rate of depress
And I hope that you know.

Like a bitch in heat I hope she know.
So put another penny in and turn the crank until the frames
Cease to move and the movie turns into a photo,
A photo the size of a kiss I hope she knows.

Staring at a Parisian sex flick where the characters don’t meet,
The characters don’t speak, and the characters are
Like mirrors facing mirrors:
Space always expanding.

So put another coin in and turn the crank until the frames
Cease to move and the movie turns into a photo,
A photo the size of my fist I hope she knows.

A hiccup in paradise
I keep you jealously to myself,
In a photo the size of a kiss,
A kiss in the shape of a bullet.

On phone lines and letterhead, I’m dying about.I’m dying about.
On phone lines and letterhead, I’m dying about. I’m dying about.
I’ve watched you whore yourself out for one more thing.
Why don’t you sell yourself.
There’s always one more thing.
Why don’t you sell yourself.
If I can’t have you know one will.
Pushing a lover to love another.
Are you turned on?

A hiccup in paradise
I keep you jealously to myself,
In a photo the size of a kiss,
A kiss in the shape of a bullet.

I keep you jealously to myself