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Houdini's Misdirection, Act III: The Anxiety

from WEIRDO: Love Songs For Revolutionary Spirits by Social Anxiety

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This message is a warning
Be careful in the morning
When your demons start swarming
They’re at the floodgates forming
Fight or flight is the state of mind
Just a part of the daily grind
Where life hits you from each side
And tells you to take it in stride
Blown these second chances
A cat on his ninth life
Pirouette through failed romances
Cuz love cuts like a knife
Abstract in my advances
The irony of it is rife
With lasting circumstances
Anxiety’s my wife

Silhouette of a man in transit
With the habits of an addict
I’ve hidden away my magic
There are flowers in the attic
I’m making love to madness
To compensate for life’s flatness
Cuz you only delay the blackness
By perfecting your practice
So here’s to the fellow miscreants who failed the challenge
And settled for the lesser evils of a 9 to 5 package
It comes with alcohol to temporarily relieve the static
A small perk for a life that continually remains stagnant

I’m succumbing to every succubus’ sacrificial sanction
While silencing any sacred superficial satisfactions
I’m auctioning off all these anxiously acidic assassins
To make way for a marriage of masochistic masses
I’m delivering doubts upon these darkly dreaming delusions
In a last ditch attempt to avoid a suicidal ballot
Is it crazy to think the world’s responsible for my madness
Or did I just succumb after years of practice?

Now I write litanies for critics to ravage
And parents who hope that I keep the Sabbath
And a select few who can see past my damage
And still smile at me while offering a bandage
Maybe happiness is about learning to manage
Necessary evils as more than extra baggage
Maybe if I show them I’m up to the challenge
The sickness in my stomach will eventually vanish

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from WEIRDO: Love Songs For Revolutionary Spirits, released July 9, 2016

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