Easier to Say

It's easier to say
You're a pilgrim on the run
But it's harder to explain those failures
To your mom

You were no good at seventeen
You're still no good at twenty-three
You're living like a passive dream, oh yeah

It's easier to say
You're a penniless recluse
But when life had passed you by
Did you make a good excuse?

I cannot hear your pitied cries
This caged bird sings, but doesn't fly
Clip your wings before you might succeed.

{How to write when you know
Nothing of anything but you and your ego
And}

Alcohol, ya root beer junkie
Natural, left-handed Monkee
Missed the call
Pick the phone up
Out of breath and so death comes out of the works
And lurks in the corner of the apartment

It's easier to say
There's a war inside my head
But it's harder to accept
The parts which left, have left
Have left a necessary pain
Have left a truth which never rhymed
Left an ego far behind me

{How to write when you know
Nothing of anything but you and your ego
And}

Alcohol, ya cigarette junkie
Adderall, focus on nothing
Till you fall
The world looks at your maggot skull
And your dull, emphatic intent
Your future had come and then it had went

Alcohol, ya plastic hunky radical
You feel kinda funky, nature calls
Hands you a precious life to live
And you give it only a thought
You're caught up in work and then jury duty