"Sugarcubes"


Everything tastes so sweet
til everything falls apart
falls apart like a house made of sugarcubes

Ants Crawling up the brick
taking tiny bites
you're wasting away but you don't know
and anyway, you're too weak to fight

And it's got a funny taste
this tart they call disgrace
the lollipop trees
are covered in ants
and I'd like to finish the race
press on toward the goal
but my trail of crumbs is gone
and I've been here for too long
and I've been wondering if this is gonna be the last dance

I believe that I'm free
free to wear chains over and over again
I believe that I'm normal
a normally strange man
I look in the mirror
and don't want to see my reflection

Flooded with emotion
emotion that I can't explain
poetry is an ocean, that I can throw myself into
I believed such a lie, that time would heal all wounds
and now when I fall, I act like that's all
and painful memories consume.