These are lyrics from a band I was in called Vent
No, not the Hydrahead band,
but another group I sang with while living in Mississippi.
I didn't actually sing, but my friend Chris & I wrote all the music
and I wrote all the lyrics.
It was all weird chaotic stuff.
The singer didn't even sing half of this stuff,
but the lyrics that I can actually remember
were all pulled out of these selected writings...

all it takes

what is the price of change?
vile intrusion
rape of mind
becoming superior
signifying nothing
all it takes
it comes to me
no stepping stone
temper burns, hate runs hard
strength of anger flows rapidly
gaining frustration
intrusive and cold
you run at the mouth until it swallows my fist
maybe that will shut you up
you keep running on until you trip and fall
maybe that will make you stop
don't know why i trust you again and again
all it takes is a twist of fate
invasion factor
makes me vulnerable
uncaring soul, i punish my weaknesses
destroying them slowly
rebuilding the wall and using your hate against you
feeling the anger sting the skinless flesh
that peeled itself back to find you embedded there
all for nothing

prozac nightmare

writhing
locked down
annihilate
imprison me
sever the binding ties
boxed in
bedsprung
fixed in nothingness
asphyxiating
breathing my own
hurt beyond hurt
its toxicity pains me
breathless and undying
bleeding and broken
torn and weakened
trapped alone
mind wandering
twitching
heart beating
losing control
forgetting reality
forsaking closeness
welcoming the pain
embracing suffering

exit wound

superficial healing scars worn like a badge
you're burning inside and the pain won't go away
what's left is suffering as time takes its toll
the hole gets bigger and you feel much smaller now
no signs will show
but the mental anguish
of knowing that you're to blame
it will last forever
it will hunt you down
it weighs you down
this exit wound
you'll never see it coming

internalfires

intent to be
undisclosed
no reason for depravity
backs are turned
and faith is denied
hands bleed to bear resemblance
to desperation
end of promise
listless holding
a feverish shuddering lie
questions brandished like weapons of war
buried deep
silently holding back
process of elimination
a hate machine
consuming and killing
breathless denial
forgiveness laughs
temptation strung out
to burn from within
as would a deeply rooted lie
emptily holding
barren and abandoned
it burns within
fanning the flames

fractured

this silent mile, a long hard walk
forever stinging in my eyes
the reclamation of my life
took me some time to bring about
get out of my life
i don't need you to survive
this time
i wanted nothing, so that's what you gave
not strange to find it's all you had
your faces changing
all so alluring
i burned for you
you burned me back
everything in my closed circuit world has been fractured






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