War Dream - Dismantled

Lately I have been noticing

That this other life

Does not revolve around

A silly war dream

I have been

Living underneath

And everything I’m meant to hear

Is not making sense anymore

Get up on me

Get down on me

I know you’ll never claim me

All these years

Spent internally

Trapped under the wheels

Which would only spin

For the outside’s needs

All so indiscreet

And then supposedly

All fell incomplete

I began to breathe

And then the grid fell in

So now the patience leaks

Time to switch the film

Capture a brand new scene

But now they start to sneer

So it’s about time I warned

The disinterested:

Get up on me

Get down on me

I know you’ll never claim me

But all that flesh

Rips through like a shockwave

The flash of eyes

Brighter than a nuclear sunrise

You always had to be artificial

You always had to shine your floodlights past me

I am not all I’m supposed to be

In fact I’m under the impression that they all agree

But yet they keep it sealed

Underneath their grins

Until I wander past

Dragging this insecurity

But all they want to see

Is a pretentious glee

And that’s quite fine by me

Whatever helps it spin

It’s just a script, you see

That functions independently

Of one’s unique identity

Promptly spit out by the social grid

Was that too much to take in?

This should be easier:

Get off of me

I know you’ll never claim me

But all that flesh

Rips through like a shockwave

The flash of eyes

Brighter than an nuclear sunrise

And I just wish I was artificial

So I could reach out and mute

This swollen silence

Just step aside

Let it all slide

You are the outside