Wino - Val Emmich, The Good Names Are Taken

where do I begin?

the hardest thing

to push my doubts off to the side

let go and speak my mind

what if I sound stupid?

or repeat myself?

it’s easy when I’ve yet to mend the trouble underneath

the news is bleak

the scientists agree

the future’s pretty fucked

we’re out of luck

I have a daughter

how will she survive the horror that awaits the world?

she’s just a girl

it makes me want to cry

I’m just one guy

I do recycle

use less energy

it’s all a bitter comedy

like Kansas said:

we’re dust in the wind

I love that song

does make me less cool?

and why do I even care?

it makes me sad to think

that everything is a contest in the end

when you get a certain age

your friends just fade

into their own communities

and no one sees anybody

there is no fun to have

it’s only work and work

and work and work and work

we never stop

bodies drop

time just ticks away

and now we want it back

all the hours that we wasted getting wasted

we were such a bunch of idiots and lunatics

I wish I was insane

cuz now my brain it thinks too clear

I feel the fear inside of every sneeze

a new disease

it waits for me

and who is gonna miss me when I’m gone?

or play my songs?

and sing along?

I’m scared I’ll disappear

was never here

my darling dear

promise me you’ll sing

I know exactly who I am

a total piece of shit

but I also am a genius

that the world has yet to recognize

I guess that makes me typical

just add it to the list

you get the gist

like Marshall Mathers did

I’ll take away what you can say

my sign, it is a pisces

pair of fish that swim in different ways

of course I don’t believe in signs

or god or fate or party lines

only that I’m rotting

day by day, I am dying

what am I doing with my time?

I wine, I wine, I wine

I drink my wine

fine