tangents (jch -- 6/6/99)
pick me apart
take out what you don't like
replace it with filler
and candy coat me for your consumption
i'm not a real person anyway
i can't love
i can't feel
"wrapped so tightly that nothing can get through"
tell me what you want me to be
fax the final product to your dearest friends
post it on a billboard for the world to see
how i would dance for you
how i would dance for me

America, you giant shining whore
naked on your bed
with your legs spread open
let me dive back in
i need you to control me with
sedative highs
& lithium lies

give me another pill
please
anything to cure what ails me

give me sex
give me sin
give me everything in between

give me love
give me death
give me sweet lies on your every breath

give me heroin
give me sadness
give me your rampaging madness

give me Jesus
give me truth
give me the gullibility of my youth

give me my god damned pill

i am ready for my medicine

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