I've Seen Some Things in This Life

I've Seen Some Things in This Life                                 February 18, 2006

I've seen some things in this life

You haven't even heard,

Much less could ponder,

For it's beyond the spoken word.

I've seen some things in this life

That drill a hole deep to the soul,

Into the heart, flooding it with images

Of the macabre and unimaginable pain.

I've seen some things in this life

That simply won't go away.

I see the horrors of each and everyday,

And I live it as a curse.

You may look and ask me why,

But I won't give you an answer

Because you just couldn't comprehend

What I speak about to you here

Is a message preordained from the sky.

I've been examined by all those kooks

Who claim they have the insight to the stars,

But all I see is a bunch of shit

Muddier than the oddities flowing my way.

I've seen some things in this life

Which hit me no matter how I feign.

My pills? They might as well

Go down that drain,

For they don't do a damn thing

Except float me on a battleship

And engage me in battle after battle

In a war that is perpetual

All because some men in white

Have these ideas which are conceptional.

Love never ceases to elude me,

And pain always seems to pull through.

Ghosts of the past constantly remind me

That I'm obscenely fat and a fool.

What is true? It's hard to tell,

For I hear so many messages,

I'm being brainwashed from all sides.

I live in a total hell.

I've seen some things in my life,

And I know the end is near.

I'm on my way to white man's hell

To speak to the devil, to my chagrin.

I believe in God, and I believe in Christ,

But I've sinned so much,

I must pay the price.

They may love me,

But I find it hard they'd accept me.

I curse them all the time

In speech and in written rhyme.

The day indeed is coming,

For the sun is setting over the horizon.

The shadows are coming,

And that means something.

They are coming, indeed,

And they are coming after me.