Time Bomb

I am a time bomb wired to a brain
Throat cut choking on the sound of my name
No pain, no gain of income wow
Echoes in this house got
Them lights turned out
Words on the paper gave the skeletons mouths
And they're screaming through this
Motherfucking closet now
"What do you want to be when you give up?"
A grown uphoping that they like my old stuff
Cinema for too many feelings and dealing
With over filling my cup
Half-full drinking down the poison
Voyage of a hollow man living to his echoes
They don’t let me sleep so
I won’t ever let go so I deflate to inflate
No break to heart beat
Grit teeth like concrete
But I can't breathe
These are bullets to the temple
Built in the middle
Or brittle landscapes but I guess I’m
Gonna have to die some way

I’m like a time bomb ticking
Tick, Tick, Ticking
We’re like a time bomb ticking
Tick, Tick, Ticking
I’m like a time bomb ticking
You’re like a time bomb ticking
We’re like a time bomb ticking

There's a secret room in this house that
We reserve just for ways out
A lyin’s den and I don't hide
My head inside no snake's mouth
I pull the fangs out in an emergency
Take the safe route then blank
Out during the surgery
The Surgeon General's warning me with
Tellings signals and caution signs
Setting off bells and whistles when
I cross the line
Now it's a regular discotheque
No insurance keeps my medical shit low tech
I paid a boatload of taxes in fact
More than my fair share
This ship will sink before
I benefit from Medicare
Gotta donate the blood you squeeze
From every penny saved
Either my eyes are going
I've seen better days
Now Eddie Vedder plays on the
Mixtape she made me
"Can't Find a Better Man" That's
My jam thank you, baby
I take a hint like a kick
To the teeth or groin
‘Til I’m left with just a
Fig leaf for the loins
But these flags light up
The room quite nicely!
And they're keeping us warm to
Boot fuel is pricey dudes is dicey with
Their crapshoot contaminants
Then they price hike organic shit or
As our grandparents call it, "food"
That's it just "fooooood"
Now how’s about now you take a listen
To us for once? Fuck youuuu
You can bend and break the laws
While you twist up the facts
You can fist-fuck the ass off democracy
And get back what you gave
In the name of charity as a tax return
But we ain't got tit to trade for tat
So the flags still burn
Now you know what was real
What was snuck into the deal
What’ll suck once it's your turn to
Get plucked up from the field
Some man's undoing will surely come to pass
'Cause a blood transfusion did him
Dirty in the past
Not me, I had to flee from the cast iron cage
Calm down and Take it Easy
With your Mad Lion ways

I’m like a time bomb ticking
You’re like a time bomb ticking
We’re like a time bomb ticking
The writing’s on the wall
And the Krylon’s dripping