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Jack but Jill

by Pyrophoria

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1.
Broken Crown 02:35
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Jack Black Jack .22 in his back Lone Wolf of the pack Cut the stack 21 cap Clap A money trap Laugh Happy slap There’s a good chap Take a dance lap Money trap Monkey trap Let him yap Tap the tap Snap the snap Of necks are you out or next We’ll have you crowned Jack now a king renowned Just make no sound 21 and shots all around 22 and shots all around Hear his feet hit the ground Call the hound Fuck a frill Jill had spat out every pill And got a thrill Yeah, whatever, she will Run of the mill Run of the mill Born in a landfill Hell became downhill A woman was made to kill Jack ran afraid The red in his head not from a blade Not a suicide king maybe an old maid He had been swayed He was the game played Everyone else just paid Yet he was below the grade This is how a king is made Jack met Jill Chasing a pain pill Downhill Her laugh was shrill Saying how many lives until You live like at will You make me ill Jack fell but Jill Stood on the hill Laughing still I found your crown On the ground I think I’ll wear it, clown Why don’t you stay down Envy is not green Envy is obscene Envy is to kerosene As you are to a guillotine I don’t get what I get; I don’t wean I dig like an amphetamine You’re pretty like a slot machine I am too full of dopamine The red on my hands won’t wash clean This is mine is what I mean All hail the fucking queen
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Queen to be King 02:40
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A boy A stupid boy king Toying Wears a crown like a clown Talk of fuck face town He doesn’t know he’s going down He’s run of the mill Pays every bill Loves still Follows every fire drill Has not a single skill Don’t want a thrill Don’t want to look to kill Oh they gave him the crown renowned All the people of the town Screech hurray Were they Thinking her way When is her day Run into the highway Jack is a nervous child He isn’t to talk about their Wild He chuckled and smiled Sweating through his cloak Trying not to choke On secrets from the royal folk Many a shit eating bloke They say it’s a joke They laughed as they spoke Close your eyes we have a surprise Everyone dies Ha! Such good times! Jack won’t commit such crimes He walks quietly down the palace He is not callous That night he doesn’t raise his chalice A weak little boy with little joy born to annoy Kings not gonna king Not gonna do a damn thing Somewhere there’s a queen With the right bloodstream Who dares to dream She’s gonna bring Reign supreme Queens gonna king Run of the mill run of the mill He has big shoes to fill And no will A boy king wasn’t meant to kill He steps over an anthill But they gave him the throne And he should’ve known It was for his silence alone A king is privilege prone The thrown is not his own He’s just a boy with an ice cream cone They gave him a crown before he was grown Oh Jill sees him up there In the aristocrat square She knows how she’d fare She wouldn’t truth she’d dare She prevail in every act of warfare Townsfolk would see her and despair The crown should be hers to wear But a broken life is not fair Boys with shaky knees Get what they please And that’s the drill Run of the mill Doesn’t impress Jill And never will Kings not gonna king Not gonna do a damn thing Somewhere there’s a queen With the right bloodstream Who dares to dream She’s gonna bring Reign supreme Queens gonna king
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Jagged Jill 02:21
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Jagged Jill walks Walks never talks In the rain with flip flops She meets plain Jane I’m well you’re the same And well that’s a shame Jagged Jill skips Don’t give her any lips They’re the get what they gets She’s gets what she insists Yellow pad shit lists She tells people who she’s kissed Because they all swung and missed They fell for her and broke their wrist She is a condition that didn’t preexist She clenched her fist And screamed resist They said no we cannot exist She hissed Then be dismissed I cannot twist You from being a plagiarist Jill walks home from the psych ward She is bored Another pill to hoard David had a secret chord And lord She knows it was not aboard Or headed toward A song that she scored 4th 5th hits the billboard Her music sits as though stored She gets caught in a cord Wins no award Normal is a life she can’t afford She don’t swallow her pride in accord She swallows a fucking sword Tattooed girl with the angry eyes She sorts through all the lies I am nothing but a surprise I am the girl who knows how she dies Freak but not weak enough not to speak Life made her her unique She lives on a streak She lives as though oblique The pain pill she hid in her cheek Her pain is incomplete Born without a scar How do we get to where we are I am a black hole to a star I’m pried open like with a crowbar
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Dopamine 02:50
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I am a fucking goddess today I put on all my jewelry; seize the day Drippidy drippidy drop, robbed the shop Mom and pop got hopped Used to mop, call that a swap Fuck me on a countertop I shine, nein I light up a cop 5 karat diamond ring Im a single lady for one thing And another is I broke my box spring This is the upswing I can see the color in everything I had hung by a draw string I used to cry like the left wing Now I turn up life and sing It may, so what does today bring First I need something to wear But where is my crown if not over there Next to my eyewear Broad day like I forgot my affair My wardrobe is full and debonair Dominatrix boots, many a pair Corsets which say I need prayer Shades that compliment my magenta hair Slutty flower dresses, spring in the air Short overalls, summer my also fare 40 degrees and the maniac don’t care Bad bitch, I do declare Oh scandelous; you wouldn’t dare I smacked on the darkest lipstick I could bare I’d say hello world but it’s more like beware Spat out every pill, jagged Jill She stands atop the hill Couldn’t get her fill Without the thrill Motherfuck a standstill Looks meant to kill Narcissus like a daffodil She was blissfully ill Her laugh was shrill Run free, run of the mill A pill goes against my right To seduce the night My eyes are bright I have an appetite Oh be young, I think I just might I’m at a great height I was electrocuted by a kite The end of the tunnel was bright It was the limelight I don’t have stage fright All eyes on me, I see the white I am the playwrite My story is not polite My story is bringing a life to a gunfight Dopamine my god, my true birthright And I am no neophyte Spat out every pill, jagged Jill She stands atop the hill Couldn’t get her fill Without the thrill Motherfuck a standstill Looks meant to kill Narcissus like a daffodil She was blissfully ill Her laugh was shrill Run free, run of the mill
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Lithium 02:37
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I got a bullet in my brain Dopamine drives me insane There is a flame Flame to the gas main Lithium cannot contain Screaming at the name I survive all the same This is what I claim They put a needle in my vein She is not well, not tame She is inhumane Bullet in my brain There’s a stain Bloody-knuckle game Red is the pain Red is the The bipolar girl inked black trails like a smokestack Off the rails off the track She says there’s no way back I’m a soul that I hijack I am bipolar, sawed in half You can hear the deadweight in my laugh I was born in a photograph The moment was not Kodak What’s her smile today or did it crack Does she sing to a new soundtrack They wait for the girl to come back She is picking up her own slack She is treading water in the coal-black She is trapped inside a blister pack The body under attack The bipolar girl inked black trails like a smokestack Off the rails off the track She says there’s no way back I’m a soul that I hijack They don’t like me my way I am off the highway Walking the byway Wondering why they Might say Life may Douse my rage Again a blank page I am offstage In a dopamine cage I pull the lever to disengage Nothing will ever change The self in me feels strange I pocket the short-change The mirror watches me derange I put my hand over the gas range I am the girl I estrange The bipolar girl inked black trails like a smokestack Off the rails off the track She says there’s no way back I’m a soul that I hijack
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Pill Popping 02:36
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Don’t do drugs kids they’re for me Hand those over I get them for free My mom always told me to be More than what the eye can see A pill popper show stopper was she This the white trash Grand Prix She liked up daddy like down I like to mix it up and hit the ground Children it’s called a mental breakdown Go back to the playground My frown turns inside down No pill for the pain the pain is renowned It’s a shit show all around No the pain gives me solid ground A handful of sugar pills turned me around Don’t need a pill for the pain Pills are for the plain I am numb all the same I’ve hurt so long I forgot my name So in a way I overcame I don’t need a drug I need a hug They shrug I’ll take yours though in accord though I extort those who ignore those Like me Who are high for free Pill popping Jill; bipolar as can be Says the crowd with a squee I spat that shit out of me I am a drug I am a god I am free There’s no pill for the pain when I am the main And I am the flame and I am the same and I am insane for the whole game they try to keep me tame But I am to blame Jagged Jill is put to shame Hurt me again she stops to proclaim Manic manic manic hall of fame Mirror cannot claim Laugh was shrill; the world is mundane She crawled out of her picture frame I am a girl with a name I don’t know who I became Don’t need a pill for the pain Pills are for the plain I am numb all the same I’ve hurt so long I forgot my name So in a way I overcame I’m the drug that scares you blind I’m out of my mind I spat out every pill they assigned I threw out every other self I could find Come inside, I’ll remind That I’m not of human kind I hope you don’t mind Motion denied I am aligned With an object designed To self-destruct in time I’m not fine I’m defined Disinclined I get behind The side of me unconfined And run with it though undefined
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Choose Violence 03:34
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My mom said Nothing Too busy Bluffing She needed handcuffing People kick the stuffing I never understood loving Never understood nothing I was playground shoving Adjusting Spontaneously combusting Cry-baby is disgusting I’m knuckle dusting Gut busting Age five swallowed alive It took a exorcist to revive I don’t need a pain pill to survive I took a bat to the beehive I’m crashworthy and I drive My mom lost her thoughts Dreams, memories, blindspots She can no longer connect the dots She drank herself out of snapshots She went looking through mail slots The bleed through she blots Now who takes care of you mom I ain’t never read a psalm No one needs to read my palm I am a bomb You couldn’t keep calm My life is a war like Vietnam So when they come Deaf blind and dumb They’ll know numb When I beat them like a drum I don’t leave a breadcrumb Come and get some Do you get what you get Do you give a shit Or do you get what you got Choose violence; have a thought Don’t do drugs kids choose violence Not silence Say what you mean because everyone is in compliance In an alliance Get them down like to a science They are a kitchen appliance Lifeless They are tv show pilots Flightless The aren’t blue but they’re called violets Self righteous They smite us I want to be eyeless But not quietness Do you know reliance Choose defiance Do you get what you get Do you give a shit Or do you get what you got Choose violence; have a thought I spat out every pill for the pain Pain is a middle name And you give it or get it plain A pill is every link in your chain Kill the man who keeps you tame Can’t says plain Jain Well there’s a needle in your vein And you let it drain But I’m filled with butane And I’m a bloodstain You’re a bullet in a brain Your downfall as frequent as rain You only know maintain Tracks for a train Your life is wrapped in cellophane To never entertain You live a life of novocaine Your loss is my bane Jagged Jill goes insane Choose violence don’t disclaim Pain is not for gain Pain you can’t contain They drug their pain mundane I beat my pain like I was inhumane Pain is a gas main And I am a flame Do you get what you get Do you give a shit Or do you get what you got Choose violence; have a thought
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Playing Rough 02:16
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I was raised by a tv No one wanted me What’s a story book When you look Up and see What they took I am free Not that I am old But that I am me And I learned It’s not what you’ve earned It’s what you take Because breakers gonna break And I’m going to make Tsunamis not waves I’m the girl who braves A villain misunderstood saves Herself from falling down Because she doesn’t follow him around I took the crown I’m falling someone is calling Someone is bawling You fucking stay there That’s where I grew up And if you knew enough You’d play rough And not cry Because through my evil eye I see a weak little boy who doesn’t try And that’s why This is mine I don’t draw a line The inhumane survive And thrive And we all feel alive Fetch a pale of water Take your lamb to slaughter Pill popper Jill the plotter Will prosper Will conquer My final offer Get off her Tsunamis not waves Calm seas in flames Get off board This ship is in accord Not manned it’s bitched and lord I can’t afford To be bored By land explored Swallow your pride I swallow a sword David play a chord I don’t know His song too slow I don’t make those anymore though I’m not sad I’m mad you know I watch the wind blow The tide is too low Fetch a pale of water Take your lamb to slaughter Pill popper Jill the plotter Will prosper Will conquer My final offer Get off her I am ocean wide But I am not good inside I’m not sorry I lied The blonde cried I told you that astride Don’t stay aside I tried I was dry-eyed There was a landslide My life a land mine There was a thin line I never used to define I don’t shine nein I redefine Show me where to sign Away my soul I won’t decline And a pale of water just fine Wouldn’t douse The heart of mine Fetch a pale of water Take your lamb to slaughter Pill popper Jill the plotter Will prosper Will conquer My final offer Get off her
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username shitforbrains 02:26
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Children Children Children of the screen Oh red blue green What’s that mean Fucktards reign supreme If it’s not a video Then it hasn’t been seen And if it hasn’t been seen It’s not from a machine And so it is obscene Many a shit for brain teen Like Like like like me Spike Spike my phone’s tv Stream Main stream I plea Thumb Thumb thumb thumb and I see Dumb Deaf and blind shine Yours I do not take what’s mine Self My mirror is online Words How to combine Phone Phone alrighty my shrine Time I am wasted in time Prime I am dead in my prime Oh red blue green What’s that mean Fucktards reign supreme If it’s not a video Then it hasn’t been seen Hear ye hear ye faces of fuck You’re in luck Here comes the garbage truck Be unstuck Don’t make another buck Selling what they demand Monkey with cymbals in hand Clashing, cycling on command The one man brass band Oh it is grand He does a headstand Skip and scan For seconds of whatever’s on brand Like your shit? Don’t think I can I’ll wait to go after many a fan 1-2-3 attention span What the Fuck is A plan I need a bedpan God damn Program Yes-man No ma’m Instagram Did not die for my face Not to trace My time and place I erase My thoughts don’t efface robots Disconnect the dots I waste The commonplace Sit like a bookcase In a database And chase Emptiness in a race To get a taste Of shiny shiny almighty’s grace It is in the showcase Where I am replaced I am not brazen-faced I am data-based Cut ted ed and paste 5 second fame awaits User deconstructs when he creates Oh this translates To their fates Everyone celebrates Top screen monkey one of the greats Oh red blue green What’s that mean Fucktards reign supreme If it’s not a video Then it hasn’t been seen
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Fall of Man 02:32
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Children Still run Women and Mill run Run of the mill run Women and children Killed one First this one Water pale Slaughter tale Horror tale Slaughter trail Women and children wail First you learn to flail Go off the fucking rail Fall down without fail Then the queen all hail God is not female She killed god on a larger scale Women and children exhale The pain scale The last coffin nail Spare warfare Not colorful or fair Breathe warm air She cut to short hair Women and Take your share Jack and Jill forge where Sie war mehr Jagged Jill watched the fall And man fell at no end-all And the crown lay on the ground there was no sound no one around For her to seize the hand me down Fell down Hell town Yelled down Felt crown Welt found Jill is a thrill renowned Broken dream it would seem Dumpster diving Conniving Eat the rich surviving Without a drug driving The uprising Broken crown devising Jagged Jill surprising Outsizing Uncompromising She is not apologizing She is antagonizing Pity partied mobilizing She is demoralizing yet desynchronizing Chaos is familiarizing Philosophizing The greatness of realizing Vandalizing Kingdoms symbolizing polarizing The uncompromising Destroy the advertising It’s a disguising For bastardizing Choose burglarizing Criticizing Not generalizing Not martyrizing Not normalizing Normal is plagiarizing They’re too busy romanticizing Desensitizing Dehumanizing Propagandizing Self-aggrandizing Imperializing We should be revolutionizing Self-actualizing Jill tells Jack to watch the sun rising Dawn will bring a capsizing Jagged Jill watched the fall And man fell at no end-all And the crown lay on the ground there was no sound no one around For her to seize the hand me down

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A new nursery rhyme where Jill wears the crown that Jack broke when he fell down the hill. She does not fall because, although broken, the world has made her tough enough to understand life's realities. As a result, she becomes queen.

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released October 14, 2021

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