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Sylvia Plath Strife

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1.
Housewife 02:39
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Spoon Wooden spoon Soon It should consume Not mouthed Afternoon Pot bound Dining room Apron tied Medication side Vacant eyes Drapes wide Naked light Flagrant guise Wasted life Faithful wife Brakes applied Awake tonight Relation died Outdated fight Painted white Painful sight Faceless cried Face it, hide Sacred lie Razor like Nameless rhyme Famous lines Favorite times Danger signs Children play Oven warm day Sticky spray Mitten, tray Timer will say Time tells away This is a life that’s ok Everything is grey This is the part where she’ll stay Crushes into an ashtray Pulls into the driveway Dismay Foreplay On a Thursday For more decay Ricochet Slip away Children’s horseplay What is this anyway Sylvia Plath strife Housewife Doubts life Sound mind Or mind like A hunger strike Like minded Right minded Great minds think blinded gleich einem Can’t find it The light in When Will the fight end I can no longer pretend Broom sweep, rolling pin I’d leave but where to begin I know where he’s been I wash the dishes again Not tonight never is when Children go to bed then I bleed like a fountain pen I am trapped from within There is no way out of my skin The next day I lock the kids out There was no doubt About The one way out
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Merry 02:35
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No I get the kids at ten That’s how it’s always been Why are we doing this again Get your fucking ass out of bed that’s when You won’t see them at all then Yeah well fuck you it’s 10am Father and a real gem Just shut the fuck up; I’ll take them Fucking mayhem I don’t blame them For being shitheads when we made him Raise them Never forgave him Caved in Day in Day out trade in Game ends Make ends Candles not at the same end Same trend Escaped him How to replace him I hate him I seethe, bleeding fountain pen I lay down, held like in a pin God damn holidays again The drummers drum on the twelfth Always war when the cards are dealt I felt my mental health Undo its seatbelt Mom is demented and helped By drinking herself Unwell And with zeal To brain damage that will never heal Amnesiac who can’t feel Wrong or deal With herself or anything real She got a raw deal She can steal Memories from nowhere; memories ideal 58; surreal We sit down for our meal She talks and it’s unreal Jesus won’t take the wheel When you’re not to drive an automobile I don’t want to see these people I peel The seal of my mind to reveal Frayed nerves of steal They talk; I do not hear It’s holiday cheer No I’m still alone this year Still no job after a broken career I put on weight, it does appear Mom asks the same thing we made clear I feel like I’ve hit a deer I don’t know how to steer I just veer Or I’m the deer that came too near Headlight eyes, but no fear The wreckage was my premiere There went another year I never wanted children yet they’re here I forgot their presents the reindeer Got hurt; they’ll never fucking appear Santa had a shitlist; he was austere You get what you get kids don’t persevere Don’t shed a single tear It’s life; don’t interfere You can’t steer You can’t steer Mommy will be right back dear I shift my car into the highest gear The miracle is how fast I can disappear
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Shiny Shiny Almighty 02:53
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Tv tv tv Looks at me Do you see Your reflection flee Shiny shiny Almighty Inside me Buy me A psyche Guide me T….I.D I swim in the mainstream Tv takes me To a strange dream Red blue green Feign sleep Plain streak Main Street Stained teeth Same scene Same theme Lol Go to hell And don’t tell Religiosa del Persona del Known well No self So help No boca del Poeta del There is no light at the end There’s only glow And I know There’s nowhere to go But to and fro Phone Not alone Jedoch ohne At the tone Drone Obseso Megaphone Never owned The Less grown Aren’t expression prone Unless cloned No respect owed Cigarette glowed Grotesque code Reset mode Echo Press no Don’t guess so Deceso There is no light at the end There’s only glow And I know There’s nowhere to go But to and fro You see the world through a screen The screen is green and what I mean is your life is a scene and you’re not keen All turned teen Is there a gene for falling in between And never being seen Except for on social media which you keep pristine Empty words thumbed into a machine Oh he just liked my vapid idiot stream It’s meant to be it seems Insignificance is in the blood stream There is no dream to dream When there’s no thought to gleam Your stupid fucking color scheme Is empty page white, screen glow themed There is no light at the end There’s only glow And I know There’s nowhere to go But to and fro
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Bring Your Bitchass To Work Day 03:20
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Fuck this job man If there’s a will there should be a can But my can is trash and I get in the van My can is spray these walls its span My can is full of worms at hand In another life I ran I did the cancan deadpan To enter sandman or roxanne Or something somehow worse than Said fuck you all especially Marianne Hijacked a police van Drove back to Dixie land Stone Mountain on brand Drove over the klu klux klan Moved in with my gran And started a rock and roll band Except I rapped over broadband They don’t understand This is not what Uncle Sam Propagandize ma’am Yeah I’m not with the program Cause god damn I just cannot stand The way they cram Paper into the paper jam It’s not empty Pam Pretty clear on the diagram I’d rather be sitting in a traffic jam That’s in a few hours when i scram Looks like it’s bring your bitch ass to work day I wake up and say Fuck that shit okay Pay, I need the pay I’d get it straight but I’m gay Bring your bitch ass to work is my least favorite day This phone going into the trash If there’s a will there’s a way to smash Don’t ask me anymore balderdash I absolutely mash Every button to watch everything crash Www. Get fucked backslash I’m going to play some Clash Fight the law after getting cash Go out with a guitar smash Talk overrated, talk Slash Also my first album Ash Boring yet it caused a splash I don’t feel like singing for a heat rash For scorched rappers from my hot flash Coworker clacking didn’t bat an eyelash Looks like it’s bring your bitch ass to work day I wake up and say Fuck that shit okay Pay, I need the pay I’d get it straight but I’m gay Bring your bitch ass to work is my least favorite day I left at 1 pm what they gonna do Notice I’m gone I think the fuck not boo I’ve just been on paint trying to make it through Vaping in the bathroom kills time too Smoking kills I been knew Don’t do drugs kids if you college appeals to you You get to learn nothing important and get a paper too Then there’s the scary part with the interview You’re grown when you’re doing what you never wanted to You lose your shine; you lose your hue Your friend who sells weed wakes up at 2 Watches tv and when he’s bored he’s through Don’t do drugs kids, get a tattoo Don’t turn boring like workmates who Listen to foo fighters and seem to sniff glue I should have done music but what can I do Everyone hates their job, sabotage is how you get through Looks like it’s bring your bitch ass to work day I wake up and say Fuck that shit okay Pay, I need the pay I’d get it straight but I’m gay Bring your bitch ass to work is my least favorite day
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Thirty-One 03:21
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You stay home You’ve grown Up And shown up Sewn up You won’t own up To being blown up You know what It was long ago but You said life is clear cut If not somewhat Eye shut Riot Don’t be quiet Complaint Or reliant What do you think Now of things She blinks She inks out Shrinks down Wrings out You had a mouth I did a recount You split your amount Now go without A doubt In your mind That you’ll find Yourself blind You resigned Redefined You’re were left behind It was poorly timed The rhyme Of the punch line But the jokes on you and it’s mine The hypocrite loses her shine I always saw it as a sign So don’t just leave your family behind Don’t come again; I do mind It’s unkind Not lady like But you’re not my type You don’t own your life Sylvia Plath strife You’re just a wife Time for dinner No breadwinner A beginner To being bitter Last September I remember A rule bender Return to sender Show and tell Day from hell I’ll show you eggshell I say get well There’s no one at your doorbell Sometimes you yell The ring you can sell The gas main you can’t smell Like a cobweb you dwell You’re just a mother in a cell Your shitass kid has a name I could care less all the same They drain you tame You can’t be yourself now, shame Everything is ours, you’re to blame No you time except in an old frame You can’t hide yet to your child a game You love the new life you claim But you don’t know who you became Time for dinner No breadwinner A beginner To being bitter Last September I remember A rule bender Return to sender Debutante with her son She just turned thirty one Time dies and there is no fun Don’t bring your family hun You husband wakes before the sun to run Your child screams until he’s done You walk to the other room and shun The flatness weighs a ton This life is not how it was spun And it’s just begun You had dreams and now you have none The charade comes undone One bullet one gun
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Nicht 03:05
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I am the new Marilyn Manson Go ahead and take a chance on Put a ban on I’ll expand on Sentence ran on Lay hands on Plan on Getting stamped on Obszon Wunderschon Unschon Vad som No con The light at dawn The bore is gone Open up, cabron I’m here, you’re walked upon Withdrawn Woebegone Sad phenomenon You’re error prone like epsilon You can’t follow me, I’m an axon Open flame on stage, you are drawn Ladies and gentlemen Danke schon WENN'S HOCH KOMMT They want Le chant I daunt ES NEHMEN, WIE ES KOMMT I am the new Marilyn Manson Go ahead and take a chance on Put a ban on I’ll expand on Sentence ran on Lay hands on Plan on Getting stamped on Obs suuhn Obszon Wond dare schon Wunderschon Onschon Unschon Vod some Vad som No con The light at dawn The bore is gone Open up, cabron I’m here, you’re walked upon Withdrawn Woebegone Sad phenomenon You’re error prone like epsilon You can’t follow me, I’m an axon Open flame on stage, you are drawn Ladies and gentlemen Dahn k shon Danke schon Venns hoke kompt WENN'S HOCH KOMMT They want Loo shauh Le chant I daunt Es neeman Vee es kompt ES NEHMEN, WIE ES KOMMT (take it as it comes) This is all new to me I used to be What you choose to be Crossed my t’s But my i’s now see C3 in your tv Not type a or o; type b Freedom don’t come free The best things in life are from a tree Maybe you disagree for CNBC I’m coming to you from reality With a curious cup of tea Do you really really really wannabe Hit the backspace key Come now sweetpea Society has you wrong Weak is unwilling to be strong Absent is willing to go along Write a song About a bomb And remain calm Cut off your life’s sitcom You never have to be a mom Read your own palm What are you hell bent on But using coupon Twirling a baton Writing in crayon And dragging on That rope is you and you’re nylon You are a cradle-grave liaison Surface scratched a micron Social media-brained moron Paint black onto the swan Destroy the con You’ve believed for so long The status quo is wrong Self expression is gone I’m coming over the intercom This is for every non Danke schon To be or not to be Fuck that shit I’m gonna be me I think therefore I’m free Yeah I ate yeah I ate from the tree Fuck the status quo, fuck your plea You’re in chains holding the key I’m a can and you’re a cannot see This is all new to me I used to be What you choose to be Crossed my t’s But my i’s now see C3 in your tv Not type a or o; type b Freedom don’t come free The best things in life are from a tree Maybe you disagree for CNBC I’m coming to you from reality With a curious cup of tea Do you really really really wannabe Hit the backspace key Come now sweetpea I am the new Marilyn Manson Go ahead and take a chance on Put a ban on I’ll expand on Sentence ran on Lay hands on Plan on Getting stamped on Obs suuhn Obszon Wond dare schon Wunderschon Onschon Unschon Vod some Vad som No con The light at dawn The bore is gone Open up, cabron I’m here, you’re walked upon Withdrawn Woebegone Sad phenomenon You’re error prone like epsilon You can’t follow me, I’m an axon Open flame on stage, you are drawn Ladies and gentlemen Dahn k shon Danke schon Venns hoke kompt WENN'S HOCH KOMMT They want Loo shauh Le chant I daunt Es neeman Vee es kompt ES NEHMEN, WIE ES KOMMT (take it as it comes) This is all new to me I used to be What you choose to be Crossed my t’s But my i’s now see C3 in your tv Not type a or o; type b Freedom don’t come free The best things in life are from a tree Maybe you disagree for CNBC I’m coming to you from reality With a curious cup of tea Do you really really really wannabe Hit the backspace key Come now sweetpea Society has you wrong Weak is unwilling to be strong Absent is willing to go along Write a song About a bomb And remain calm Cut off your life’s sitcom You never have to be a mom Read your own palm What are you hell bent on But using coupon Twirling a baton Writing in crayon And dragging on That rope is you and you’re nylon You are a cradle-grave liaison Surface scratched a micron Social media-brained moron Paint black onto the swan Destroy the con You’ve believed for so long The status quo is wrong Self expression is gone I’m coming over the intercom This is for every non Danke schon To be or not to be Fuck that shit I’m gonna be me I think therefore I’m free Yeah I ate yeah I ate from the tree Fuck the status quo, fuck your plea You’re in chains holding the key I’m a can and you’re a cannot see Society has you wrong Weak is unwilling to be strong Absent is willing to go along Write a song About a bomb And remain calm Cut off your life’s sitcom You never have to be a mom Read your own palm What are you hell bent on But using coupon Twirling a baton Writing in crayon And dragging on That rope is you and you’re nylon You are a cradle-grave liaison Surface scratched a micron Social media-brained moron Paint black onto the swan Destroy the con You’ve believed for so long The status quo is wrong Self expression is gone I’m coming over the intercom This is for every non Danke schon To be or not to be Fuck that shit I’m gonna be me I think therefore I’m free Yeah I ate yeah I ate from the tree Fuck the status quo, fuck your plea You’re in chains holding the key I’m a can and you’re a cannot see
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Monkey See 03:09
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The internet said I’m dead My head Is filled with lead I came I saw I spread I made my bed Washed the spread From where I bled From my brain for what I read Monkey see monkey imbed See hear speak until mislead The internet says this instead But I have never seen the streets red With any bloodshed I heard this from a friend We can’t just depend On what they say when it’s pretend I heard they just want us to spend Our money in the end And then they recommend We just listen to them Where is your evidence when It doesn’t affect me then I know what they intend I’m going to defend My rights, go out this weekend Fuck a mask, turn off cnn I came I saw and I’ll see the end I’m not doing what you demand Cause I don’t understand I’ll cherry pick from the newsstand Every celebrity died by their own hand Every brunch spot was banned Every theater turned to farmland They burned down Disneyland Showing skin gets an act of reprimand Shot on sight if you don’t wash a hand The vaccine killed millions on command School is over forever and no class planned I fucking knew this would get out of hand They gays thought life was just too bland It was the flames in hell that they fanned They’re trying to have us all programmed Fox News said go Go be you or know They want this to be the status quo Welcome to the shitshow Scramble scramble throw Your head out the window Fox News said run They’re gonna come Take every gun It’s just begun China is the one China we hate chimes everyone A setup after all is said and done It’s all a front A political stunt I came I saw I joined the witch hunt Stupid fuckfaces abound Everywhere in every town Spreading that shit around They only hear one sound And that’s them digging themselves into the ground With an article they found Yes, you belong in a herd Where you never speak a word Because you’re a stupid fucking mockingbird
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Sincerely Yours 02:19
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I wake at midnight You did write I can’t open, for it’s sight Skin tight Sich frei Isch ist zeit It is right Frei is weit You’re in sight A storm kite I put in flight Like a satellite Moonlight Lucite I’m no play-write I play wrong not right I’m worth one night Black and white Broken traffic light Car crash out of spite I say I’m alright Not by a long sight How much longer Do we fear monger Conjure The Badlands conquerer The monster We brought her Underwater The sleepwalker Big talker Jaw dropper Train hopper Show stopper Imposter We lost her Why bother With a final offer Go into hiding and prosper Zwar herr You can’t take me away from myself Although that might help My health Defines hell Sky fell Eine welt But I felt Nein welt Discounted my soul to sell I am unwell I came out of my shell Where all ocean sounds dwell And my heart would always swell Said farewell Lived in a motel This life is a jail cell Every word I misspell In a sonnet where I wish you well My hand shook could you tell It’s myself I undersell I am under like a spell Circling like a carousel This feeling rings a bell Over and over again I yell Like dust that settles I dwell I wake at twelve My eyes held The knife fell Sincerely yours dear, farewell Ich hatte keine eigene welt
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Daddy 02:37
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My daddy left when I was born I never learned how to mourn He was a ghost I could’ve sworn A sheet never worn No veil to see how torn High up like a thunderstorm Came down like no life form Lightning strike norm The ground was always warm I lay down as if free from harm As if clarity would disarm I lay next to a firearm I was born to charm I should have starred “Fuck you’s” on a score card The sky would be marred The high was a safeguard Drowned in the schoolyard He ricocheted like a shard My eyes were scarred My black heart became hard Your daddy left you too Who knows if you even knew Nevertheless you grew In silence without hullabaloo You said what do I do Daddy isn’t coming home so who Is supposed to My daddy came home on cue From jail and he seemed new For a minute or two What’s your daddy gone through You don’t have a clue You don’t really want to unscrew Someone you never knew Your shade of blue Can get into a queue Your daddy issue is yours There’s no skeleton behind those doors There’s no weapon inside those drawers I hide beneath on all fours Standing upright daddy snores A high so high he ignores I cried in a pew I thought it couldn’t be true The way your footing falls through The fuck you gonna do When your dad makes his debut Say I always knew And then he would love you Until then you make do With no one to look up to But Iooking down was my view I got a good preview Of what life does to you But you cry about daddy at 22 Claiming nazi and playing Jew Fuck you Go rap about how it ruined you You were put away I was put through Your daddy issue is yours There’s no skeleton behind those doors There’s no weapon inside those drawers I hide beneath on all fours Standing upright daddy snores A high so high he ignores
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Razor Blade Tongue 02:55
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Why are you hell bent A propellant I am the shell and Very well can Be more help than A held hand Compelled man Instead stands Says ladies can Stick to a pan Tar black, I crack, a stack, a rack, I pack, I lack, two way track, turn pages back, blackjack, hijack I was assaulted Rifle Asphalted Cycle Faulted What all did They stifle The scalded An eyeful Tide’s pull I am the moon’s skull All Wolf no wool In school The one rule Was cruel Was that I play the fool Now I pocket a hand tool Husband and wife Sylvia Plath strife I’m still beaten in another life My wound is a knife Speich Another strike I am almost lifelike Did I have eyesight I brought a wound to a gunfight Husband and hold tight I regrow a limb every night A woman was made to kill It’s not the look it’s the will Razor blade tongue still Run of the mill Run of the mill Fire drill Jack fell but Jill Then stood on the hill Her laugh was shrill I spat out every pill Dug in the landfill Until I could drill Up the thrill And spill Over like a daffodil Oh dead man walks But mostly he talks And talks And mocks and mocks And locks and unlocks The music box Dance you fucking Fox I see him on the docks Hitting rocks The door knocks He blocks The man at the door drops The box Hits the sidewalks No doorbell to ring Just ringing out of her shots
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Professional 03:04
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Church I went to church In a blue skirt To search It grew worse Rumored Two words Who hurt They knew dirt Who burnt New verse Sutures I am a producer Who sir Herrr abuser Ready aim Shooter Use her Don’t Introduce her A time Consumer Later than Sooner Vivid stupor Need a booster Stuck on Suitor I said I’m swell Preacher man said burn in hell I think I do that quite well Good to get out of my shell I am followed by what I sell Looks to make a bombshell Confession put me in a cell Let’s fuck in the motel My job is to make you tell What makes you yell Not too loud the pictures fell I am a southern belle With a secret they smell I am god damn professional Burn the god damn confessional First you pay I smoked and had nothing else to say Crushed into an ashtray how much am I worth today I’d say like it’s your birthday Listen you obey I’m writing the screen play I’m Marilyn and Manson by the way I hit him so hard he lay On the bed; time to play Please I heard him say Too fast to hardly make way I’ll see you Sunday I am god damn professional Burn the god damn confessional Oh a whore knows How it goes It shows Expensive blow and joes Designer clothes Striking pose She is prose A shop near close She slows They expose She froze What she chose She owes Falls like dominos Juxtapose Church goer rose And low of the lows Jesus never owes A broken nose For whore in the shadows She doesn’t know what she owes No threat to pose low of lows This is how it goes I went to church to impose I am god damn professional Burn the god damn confessional
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Nie Synchron 03:30
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I grew up So what Wenn schon Ging ohne I’m grown Lips sealed with silicone Cellophane for a brittle bone Nicht schon At will alone Territory unknown I am a lost home I am my own Ich mache keinen Ton I am a no hone time zone No fly zone Sometimes flown I am strike on sight prone No fine comb My eyes shone The sky my own I provide no Sideshow I am wild though Unlike those With eyes closed Mouths with flies closed Who knows Where their wild goes I keep up when the music slows Do not bother with those Who dip their toes Fuck the song someone else chose They fall because they’re dominos Too close to even juxtapose Jetzt hallen schon Talk shit get hit because they’re on the nose It’s too easy to rub elbows When you can instead throw those Bulldoze The status quo Ich will die Aufmerksamkeit von die nicht synchron I was once a Marilyn But it felt like heroin When I narrowed in On the arrogance Of narrow minded Idiots Now I am the new Manson Holding the old one ransom For his unhandsome demonstrandum His Anthem Is mutandum I’m taking his fandom I am this that and then some Would you like an advance on Taking a chance on Your stance on How the word “cant’s” gone Now the trance is gone Ich nichts halten von Nicht einer von A non-non They are not on Lass mich hören von Talk shit get hit because they’re on the nose It’s too easy to rub elbows When you can instead throw those Bulldoze The status quo Ich bin die neue schöne Marilyn had to become one of a Kind to so keep in mind That your smile may be kind But you’re leaving your worth behind Kann ich dich hören oder nein
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Just A Tad 02:51
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Ladies and gentleman Deine Aufmerksamkeit bitte You enviga Inspire a go getta To be Something bigga Frau Dojigga Herr herr mista Are you a quitta A fitta Inna, countafeita You on twitta Twit twat tweet litta Truth twista Off white fibba Church skippa Current resista The lights flicka Herr nervous trigga Game rigga Boot licka Ima getta kicka Slow sippa Good tippa I snicka Reconsida Being a church going strippa If ya Miss tha Doodah All day and Judas Didn’t preclude us It just beehooves us To give two cups Of sugar to who cues us seduces us Get on the blue bus Two bucks Uproot us To anywhere new but Nowhere that loses us Where it will undo us Herr and frau say to us This strife ain’t so bad I got what I wanted from the ad It’s off just a tad I ain’t mad I’m sad But I’d like to add It’s the best life I’ve ever had The blue bus is good I rode the short bus in childhood But blue bus is about could Would you or should You stood No time to cook Or sit and read a book I live alone and it took Years to study gobbledygook Sylvia Plath strife shook Doktor who doesn’t look For a phone to ring off the hook She mistook A textbook for a brook That would take her to a nook This strife ain’t so bad I got what I wanted from the ad It’s off just a tad I ain’t mad I’m sad But I’d like to add It’s the best life I’ve ever had I’m just a cracker in a box When a bitch says bleiche she means tube socks Psych ward sock colorful today, peacocks My hair turns grey what do I say when no one talks Thanks for coming and watching the clocks Yeah I tried to kill myself but I’ve never walked the walks I’ve been eradicated but like smallpox My head is like the boondocks Fake doctors all pretend they’re sherlocks These pills are like chewable chalks I’ll take a few seizures after the shocks Fuck rehab is what I’ll have on the rocks This strife ain’t so bad I got what I wanted from the ad It’s off just a tad I ain’t mad I’m sad But I’d like to add It’s the best life I’ve ever had
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Tantamount 03:07
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Caught him fuckin around Amazing grace how sweet the sound Lord Jesus she took her ass down She is a verb she is not a noun Husband fled westbound How now brunette cow on ground I will rain down on you with every pound You once were lost but now I found You blindsided like by a greyhound Does a circus clown Wear a frown I rip apart my wedding gown He was my guy like Motown But I think my girl sounds like a better rebound Herr God dammed man well well I see I see well well Fare thee fucking well well I’ll see you both in hell She empties out their account Takes a blood of her enemies count Lost some reds no need to recount Infidelity and homicide tantamount Smack on lipstick, time to dismount From the whore of herr low sperm count You owe me some kind of discount Herr God dammed man well well I see I see well well Fare thee fucking well well I’ll see you both in hell Sylvia Plath strife no doubt I’m the drug you’ve been warned about I will find him and won’t leave without Knuckles made of brass kind of clout .22 pistol Queen no need to flout About the girl in the trunk now She took an off-road route Perhaps she learned it doesn’t help to shout She smoked as she headed out With nothing close to a girlish pout She found him like a mushroom cloud Dumb fucker talking all loud I approach like a storm cloud Lure him quietly from the crowd I will remind you what we vowed To death do us part, his heart must pound So I forgive you on my own ground Silent shot dropped, guilty man down Herr God dammed man well well I see I see well well Fare thee fucking well well I’ll see you both in hell
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Yellow Dress 02:58
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You can run but you can’t hide Sylvia Plath lied It was not art when she died Strife trägt ein Kleid Strife ist gelb vor Neid Strife that tastes like cyanide Strife unspecified Strife of plainness seeping inside Strife of falling back in your stride Strife ocean wide Strife set to divide You like a riptide Where do you hide Always Closed but Never dry eyed Voll leid Sichentscheid What is it like to die You think you sink Like black ink I do not go down I think I am not a link I am out of sync I missed a wink Throw it into a kitchen sink Have another drink Have another jinx Chip at the Sphinx The way out shrinks I am distinct Hope went extinct Like an instinct I’ll keep this succinct Life came and you blinked Suicide You decide To subside To hide You alive You cried Move aside Losing side Judas lied A glued divide Review denied Who revived Who pried Blue eyed Flood tide Bus ride No plus side She just typed She must write es sonne scheint Ich bin nicht Ich bin nicht Ich bin nicht Von ich es sagte voll leid The red hair the red hair Who is she herr Yellow dress No longer there Do you envy the truth or the dare Ashes to ashes Is exactly nowhere Strife that makes us all aware Strife that drives you not to care

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This album explores plain people's miserable lives and how they deal with it, whether drastically or not at all. It also encourages challenging the status quo and not being a blind follower.

My final point is that no one has to choose a life that brings them to the breaking point. Of course I understand there are genetic predispositions to disabilities, environmental factors, (I am bipolar and my life has not been completely easy), etc. But mostly, no one has to choose or stay in a miserable life, or live a blinded life, either. I resigned from my job as a doctor due to disability discrimination after fighting tooth and nail, and it has likely ruined my career. But I'm glad I did, because as I say in the album, "Weak is unwilling to be strong/ Absent is willing to go along." Further, some of the songs may be silly or taboo, but this entire album reads as a social criticism.

Why Sylvia Plath? She was an unsuccessful poet at the time of her death, living as a housewife. She killed herself, and yes, it would be hard to argue she wasn't also mentally ill. After she died, she became famous; she even became a joke. I see her as a symbol for the glorification of suicide. To me that is disgusting. This is a criticism of people like her who let their lives go to waste and for people who blindly follow their lead.

"I’ll keep this succinct
Life came and you blinked"

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released August 13, 2021

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