BIRDBATH

By Cole Steef

Released on October 2, 2022

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To die

Make will to endure, so unwilling to relieve the thought in time

To cry

To therapy, the trip that caps exceeding being infantile

To fly, to fly, goodbye, good night

To some solutions, out of tune and out of style

It’s mine to split from evolution

If it’s play you want, then find a stick and shove it up your...

I’m troubled and self righteous

Think the animal in me’s no good for numbers but our sorrows build tact

I don’t need a dopamine hazmat

Rather stagnate than implode

And would I ever take that back? Well...

I don’t know exactly what it means to me

I’m mesmerized by truth, though, on a binge, it’s strangling

Chalk me up a ghost and tell me he’s not part of me

I’d rather choke on the thought than anyone to help me

My head flickers and I don’t care

There’s a circuit shocked out, need a simple talk’s patch

But it’s candy-like, quality of life

Have a sugar-drenched smile or you could mean something

Shove that diagnosis deep beneath your rotting bed

You’ll give yourself a stroke, but least you took it like a man before you were dead

Eat your body weight in aspiration and have it made

No one’s gonna be there for you

Get it? Get it?

I got it

Cuz we don’t have to be rational to be immune to hard blows

Cuz our own insight’s just better

Than some bastard with a notepad

Brother, it’s just a few barrels to the temple til you get it right

Cuz I don’t know exactly what it means to me

I’m mesmerized by truth, though, on a binge, it’s strangling

It’s the corner where I plainly stay choking, choking, choking

If you heard your response to rescue, you’d think that you were joking

Joking