Decades Long Trip

So we begin with a groan
I wish I had phoned Mum to let her know that I won't be coming home
Oh no
My bro from SoBo was already stoned when I landed
He was already at it
Called it the greatest acid he'd ever scored
Don't tell me more
Let me drop a load

Let me feel it to the bone
And let's see where it goes, so
I stare at my watch, 5:45
In a green room in a bar, glossy vibe
I smoke a Superstar, smoke tendrils in my eyes
I'm ready for the joints and the drugs
Molly, hi

So then we lit one up, Hari went to talk
To Neel who flipped a cup, then he flip-flopped and
It felt dangerous when Denise smelt a rock
When we hit it blunt, I saw Dali's melting clocks
The trip won't go on its own
Groucho's playing the trombone on the phone
Bo said bro where's the pot, yo
Burn him inside his bong, no
And get me his mojo
Time passes, I see Karl Marx, hung like a Lark's tongue
Time slows, loud fun, can't breath much, lungs gone
Left my chest and ran away
Breath gone

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Dissociating into chunks
Negotiating with my lungs
To stay inside my body, high and drunk
I'm just wrung out from every bump in my rump
My fingers are growing leaves and my junk
Is bleeding, stumped
I ran after my lungs, serious
My organs left one by one, Ship of Theseus
That doob I smoked earlier felt dubious
Ludicrous, and stupid, huh, do me this favour

By humouring me jest for fun
An age-old question asked by... uh, someone
If I replace all my cells but one by one
Am I still the same me I was once I'm done
Or did I change somewhere somehow
This place and now
Displacing the frau inside me
Wow
But which cell was it, what percentage of me can I change
Before I'm no longer the same, the question remains
Is it the wood or the wind in the sails
Is the crew or the floorboards that prevail?

And what of the memories and the history
It's so weird to me that we believe
That they cease to be the ship's identity
Is it continuity, or mutalibility
If I clone myself, am I another me
Or is the older me the one with the broken shoulder, me?
Or is the one soldered together and is the bolder, me?
It's been a week and this weed doesn't leave me
Still high all this while, greed cannot please me
My game seems weak, future's bleak
Does time usually pass as fast as it did last week

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Now it's been forty years to that day, I'm still tripping
What if I'm Man Ray, all these people around me sitting
And cribbing, claiming that they know me better than I know me
I don't see how that can be
Can it be?
Some sort of snake disguised as a human
Eating gluten seeing through lumens
As I do them dirty, screw them, flirting
And my

Let me tell you about this one now

And my wife grows older in front of my eyes, her knees
Are weak, her thighs, I'm still high, the decades go by
The meat that is my daughter grows up to be my niece, she's adopted
I'm still hopped and I shoulda kept it clean
And not gobbled every free shroom that was in that green room
To release this silly nicotine, with the steam
Nothing left, I get in my car, it's bizarre what we are
The world's

Nothing
Nothing left, now in my car, it's bizarre what we are
The world's slowed down since that day at the bar
I was a star, but the tar was inside me, please hide me
From myself, I accelerate, not lightly
My car starts levitating, that's some freakiness
Speeding up now, I feel a little dreaminess
Oh shit I'm going beyond the speed limit
Man that was the weirdest weed, innit?
I look around at the bongs around
Not in my car any longer, what's wrong huh
I'm back in the green room at the bar
There's a big bong, uh, I'm konked off too far
With my friends, Neel, Denise, Hari, they're all staring
The same strange expression that they're all wearing

They say "Buddy you okay, you've been quiet for hours."
What year is it? I feel like I've just come back from Mars
I'm irreparably changed from my trip, I've aged decades inside
It's ripped into my legacy and pride
Crippling my sanity, let it
My old life where I
Believed Lenin, I reached zeniths, I've seen men lead penance
And degenerates in denims who hate independence

What the fuck? Is my watch broken?
I don't get it

It was years ago when it was 5:45
But my watch says it's not even 5:49
Yo this toke had some kind of speed in it
I'm back home now, and it's only been three minutes

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