The Good Reverand Dirtbag Speaks!

[Flaming_Rat]

I'm beginning to believe that someone's getting tired of being used
years of salt eroded in a stream where life won't grow
eons melted into nothing
everything pulls just a little too hard
this is the improvement we were promised so long ago

And here,
Old Scratch just won't let go of our legs
and it's gone on so long we can't help but begin to enjoy it
I can't help but think a bargain could have been made

And made it could have been...
but we were just a little too busy suckling on the crusty nozzle of faux-enlightenment to make it
when the steps towards nirvana only lead back to the crumbling cave we crawled out of
one can't help but question...
something

What that something in question to be questioned is, however
figure it out for yourself
I'm no thinker
they only pay me here to sweep up the floor

Come on now, no more weakness
eyes wide open...

In the end, I guess the devil's easier avoided than the taxman

[Flaming_Rat]

The want is real but the have is not
a parallel drawn to many times for comfort
it strikes me as odd that this should be your resignation
to be rejected by angels when demons would love you

Why so sullen?
why so cold?
why would you push to be so lost in pain when the things you seek out in pain exist just two steps back?

This old rotten worn out masochism is your greatest aspiration
and this barely defined quest for surgically-enhanced endorphins is the best thing you have
but the whip and the needle shattered right alongside that stained glass picture frame
the one I used to live in

Did you really think it'd be that simple?

And maybe you've been right along
and maybe I've lost that drive to be the best you could have
and maybe I've been wrong before
but, as I'm sure you've learned by now...
even when I'm wrong, I'm right

[Flaming_Rat]

Someone told me the other day that I'd lost the flame
that someone had come along and stolen the torch
that unless I could find a new pain to drive me to the darkest depths of innovation...
I'd be done

Does a passion for lack of passion count as passion?

Nevermind.