Locked Upstairs - Lackthereof

Assumed that you were not

Dislocated in thought

Assumed that you went blind

Or maybe just forgot

I’d rather not split hairs

You lock yourself upstairs

I’ll sleep out in the hall

Believe that no one cares

There’s pills out there for that

There’s hooks to hang your hat

There’s proverbs to absorb

But books just make you mad

I’m swinging without end

A thinly veiled plan

No hoses and no tanks

More grief than I can stand

No that’s not even close

The holiest of hosts

Will stop to say goodbye

Here standing comatose

I’m late again

You all know where I’ve been

Unearth this monument

The shovels won’t dig in The photos in the hall

The lights are coming on The door is being thrown

You wave a magic wand

But we’re still stuck outside

With faces open wide

The violence comes in quick

We’re swept up in the tide