Piscine Kipling

In The Deck Of The American Boat
Ride Up The Rivers Of The Modern Age
Passing The Divergent Tributaries
Where Isolated Villages Sit Still
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Today was a not a fantastic day for me,
Any day was like it whether its my birthday or a monday,
It'd seemed pretty normal and wasn't exaggerated,
Routine and normality still taking hold on me,
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I find myself in the dark covers of a mountain's shadow
In a cabin, dying down the memories days past had brought
Raging times and memories we torn up still not mellow
Through my window, I see the black bear's leg is caught
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What does the sky do but drape over us, in deep blue and solemn gray?
And what is our aspirations doing but pull us further into a bitter end?
Why are we chasing those moments we plan to have some other day?
We know our futures will eventually come, but what happens then?
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I am lost in tomorrow, I'm already gone from today
Some say I went their alone, but I know the story

I fell into a hole, a place that freezes my time
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She's just some ordinary girl with a pretty face
Some beauty I don't know and someone I exaggerate
She's a muse to me, pictures of her inspire my poems
I write about her life and its something I don't know
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Predicament

I have seen it all and the choice I want to make
Now is to retreat into the solemn quiet life of my mind
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We live in a transparent world with covered eyes and visions veiled
Our self-respect and dignity sold for a job, our lives are sealed
Go to school for years so you can work the dayshift until your lunchtime meal
And when Mr. President comes around your already on the ground in a kneel
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I'll be the one, to tell you babe, that you ain't crazy, and its not in your head
And if you want to go, I'll remind you of why, you should stay with me for a while

I'll be the one, that cheers you up inside, if your rifted by the alienation of life
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I remember moments far back in the deepness of my mind
Of past times, of you and me and a life that has been
I remember thoughts I use to have all throughout the night
When my world was about you, one that I have always knew
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An analytical mind analyzing each situation, scenario and thought
Passive thoughts springing from nothing and turning into something
As thinkers delve deeply, trying to discover what that has brought
There are mysteries in everything we see, meanings are in everything
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Once upon a time, in a mind that was different and still young
I had hopes for man, to find what was unilluminated by the sun
To find the same state of mind as me, with knowledge and well being
Parity with me, they will know what I know and see what I see
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I'm pursuing my teenage years while being completely lost
Uncontrollable uncertainty unbinds me, shaking and stirring
False truths I then dwell upon, and then it proceeds to toss
My senses into a chance direction, I latch onto anything alluring
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Who was that pretty girl I was looking at from a distance, unnoticed
She speaks to me, I don't know her yet I already created her life story
In another lifetime, she would have been a court bard's muse
I think of her face as comparing to a sun setting into the western sea,
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You know, its been a pretty strange year
With the passage of time, I've become different
Something stranger, warping into another person
Perfectly uncontent at times, arrogant at others
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Taxes, Hot Gas, Attack, What have these politicians been telling us?
Slaves, Dig your grave, Don't be brave, We don't need no dissidents
Razors from Braun, Jobs, Nice Lawns, Give you enough to keep hush
Enjoy, Electric Toys, Visit Illinois, And be happy whenever you can
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Now hear this call and listen with an open mind this story I'm going to tell
Its the tale of the expanding government and its infringment on our rights
Disallow a particular plant and throwing the natural into a free man's hell
And we the people suffer with this, so don't say prohibition is alright
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I'm stuck in the dreariness of my mind's obsession
Etching out my fate, I'm in the zenith of my depression

Going somewhere I want to see, Being someone I want to be
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I remember well what you told me then
As I ponder the past that held me, when
I was young and my mind was strung,
Naive and bitter, I only perceived
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My friend, I know nothing of why I am this way
I know nothing of why, some days I feel as if I
Was just made, from clay and baked on the hearth
of eternity, Instilled with the spirit of the stars
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