Low Beast

So tell me If I paint a smile, maybe you can love more
Dressed as a clown with a propensity for blood and gore

Summon war, roused in the rubble
On a quest for courage, I found trouble
Double Dutch fumbles from contorted mouth
Conjures damp rising from this haunted house

Fawning sprouts whispers from a spirits tongue
Draws me to the woods where the witches hung

Until they swung, hanged from the oaks brittle branch
Very same tree my initials carved

Armed with harpoon to kill coy
And fears I have known since a little boy

Fill the void until it's neat peat at 6 feet
Where blackouts are the step dad of the big sleep

Riddled heap A.M. another failed exorcism
Bad blood dripping from a head that's splitting

So I drink to forget but begin remember
Left my heart in that snowy December
Tend to consume 'til I darken the room
Sit and watch Venus as the Martians loom

Then I drink to empowerment but cower in its wake
The blood the beast spills is sour in its taste
I tend to consume, 'til the laughter balloons
And bursts on this party of two

As medicament simmers to poison
A blue funk sings the dawn in
Even thinner blood dries by morning

For they can only love me when I'm you
I can Hyde behind this lie
But I can't Hyde you

So in the coming of an age I stumbled on a treasure trove
Unbeknownst was the curse on that embezzled gold
You never know the price until the pockets turned
Pissed away my youth into a shoddy urn

Watch, learn, listen a fool hardy party trick
I can arm a timid misfit with charm and wit

A Discarded magic, old hat rabbit bundled in
Catching sympathetic jeers at family function
Breathe dysfunction, never felt enough
But I can harness super powers when I thin the blood

Mix up potions Hyde from the jackals
A shy teen shined when prescribed what the adults gulp
Sculpt away the weak mould
Lions mouth ajar social media freak show

My people caught a creature they caught on a camera phone
And I seem to share some features with that animal

So I drink to forget but begin remember
I left my heart in that snowy December
I tend to consume 'til I darken the room
Sit and watch Venus as the Martians loom

Then I drink to empowerment but cower in its wake
The blood the beast spills is sour in its taste
I tend to consume, 'til the laughter balloons
And bursts on this party of two

As medicament simmers to poison
A blue funk sings the dawn in
Even thinner blood dries by morning

For they can only love me when I'm you
I can Hyde behind a lie
But I can't Hyde you