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Therapy Money

by Pyrophoria

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1.
The New Black 03:03
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I called everything grey, what’s the matter Stairway or Jacob's ladder? In my head, the dreams just scatter The mirror made me shatter And it’s come right back Black is the new black I called my voicemail back, what’s the phrase Fires or trails to blaze New year, new funeral in phase I’m stuck, stuck here in my ways Am I lost on my way out or in? Try, try or die again Into the light or train at the end Helene, how do I begin?
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fine 02:05
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No I’m fine I got outta line Six six sixes mine Left behind In 49 In my mind I find no peace For a crease They’re left to find A tongue twister they unwind Razor blade inside Where is it I hide The dark in me outshined By video tape streamers to rewind Caught in a story unkind I am better We’re tight knit like a sweater In summer weather Two birds one stone of a feather Lean on me, in the red debtor I’m a leech, so glad I met her Two years I can’t forget her But I go on In a song The words last me long But I got them wrong What am I saying? Who am I portraying? Overstayer staying I go on like I’m waiting Creating Another life I waste hating But I’m fine now All eyes now Can’t describe how The time out Of a wound wasn’t silver spooned And here I am phased out like the moon Back to normal soon Love songs go back in tune All the wasteland again will swoon Who am I now in bloom Out of concrete Barren feet Kicked to the side of the street Home is a word obsolete Am I a fever or is it the heat I’m a stain to everyone I meet I am bitter, victory tastes sweet I drive from the backseat My drive is defeat I am a broken record on repeat I was a wildflower weed to eat I am fine, the hole in me complete Who’s there? Amused stare I am too abused to care I never knew a friend They just knew to pretend Out of pocket I amend But I am empty in the end I am fine alone I don’t know why I try or why I phone home It’s a place I’ve never known I broke the door with every bone My glass heart threw a stone Am I just grown? Accident prone? The Queen off her throne Was left at the tone What do I owe What do I show When the reaper couldn’t keep her Gave me more to sow I don’t know Where I go I am fine though This is my flow Ebb in a web of undertow The future comes on slow The future busts a suture I am a first person shooter In the mirror like an intruder Shake off the mover I quake, cocked in stupor The screws got looser I act like I knew her I’m a beggar and I choose her I am better now I lose her In this life I side with my abuser Moving on a maneuver I should have died sooner But I’m ok I'm fine today Never wanted your fucking time of day This must be the day No I’m fine, the light is just grey
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One Way Ticket 02:55
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When will I find love? I don’t know what I speak of Consumed by a foxglove A blind ticket stub My heart is as warm as a gun I told them to run I’m not the one She has kind eyes I take life by surprise War torn with lies I watch for a sunrise I’ve never been lonely I’m just the one and only I wish you would know me Open ocean wide, show me
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Cowgirl 02:24
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Black hair White t-shirt She walks in like a That stare Makes me hurt (Me first) She walks in like a Dream Dreads in her face And a a smirk on her face Smirk on her face This ain't no chase But you got my heart to race Got my heart Pink hair Wild West boots I’m a just a singer in a I swear I ain’t got no roots (On 3 shoot) I said I’ll show you how to Dream That there Ain't no young girl That there's a woman if I ever In the air like a stick up (Pick me up) She walks out like a cowgirl Oh now girl, Oh now Hold me down girl Hold me down
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Polaroid 02:35
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The lover walks a line Tonight I’ll call you mine Your burning eyes, a crime Now I’ll have you do your time Oh you shake like The fever won’t break I hold you like A Polaroid I take What a pretty picture You have me make The siren is brown-eyed Sweeps me up like a moon tide Open, she lays beside Let me come inside Oh you shake like The fever won’t break I hold you like A Polaroid I take What a pretty picture You have me make My heart beats out loud The flower crowned bowed Sunshine you do me proud In a night spent on a cloud
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picture perfect (Interlude) 00:40
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Oh you shake like The fever won’t break I hold you like A Polaroid I take (You give me perfect pictures of a love I'll never have) What a pretty picture You have me make
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Ruin Me 03:16
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Psychosis, psychosis I don’t know if prose fits Black Heart, everyone knows this Sore thumbed, closed fist Run but not to flee Run free I am here don’t look for me The liar, the trapeze I fall so hard, so hard with ease Poems, what to make of these Poems aren’t hard to please Ruin me, ruin me What do I do with me I am my jailer, teach me mutiny I combust at every opportunity It took a funeral to close a door I don’t know what dreams are for
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Left Holding The Plastic Bag 03:04
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(Empty faces) Run, but not to flee I am here don’t look for me Run, but love run free Oh the end was meant to be Empty faces Empty places Is all she had for me (Ruin me, ruin me) But in a plastic world Is plastic what we’re supposed to be? Run, but love run free (Ruin me) I am here but where is she? (Ruin me) Empty faces Empty places Is all she left for me But in a plastic world Is plastic what we’re supposed to be? Empty faces Empty faces Wrapped in plastic Wrapped in plastic You had vivid and they trashed it Here is where they stashed it Let’s go together now, You don’t heal you outlast it Last it Empty faces Empty faces Who takes the places Of what erases All traces? Empty faces Empty places Is all she had for me (Ruin me, ruin me) But in a plastic world Is plastic what we’re supposed to be? (She said call me "Rain") Wrapped in plastic Wrapped in plastic You had vivid and they trashed it Here is where they stashed it Let’s go together now, You don’t heal you outlast it Last it Empty faces Empty faces Who takes the places Of what erases All traces?
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Catharsis 02:53
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Pupil Pupil open It’s what you show them Not what you owe them Don’t want to know them Or myself In and out Spinning out Please help Cried the black-eyed that cried Pat dry There there Don’t stare Into the sun Icarus must combust, thus learn to run I belong to no one I told her She was older Bolder Couldn’t hold her Shoulder Eye Pupil Eye The pupil of the beholder It got colder Beauty is how I mold her Beauty in the eyes of the controller What defines real Is it what I feel I forgot it Antipsychotic Was a narcotic I couldn’t heal I had to reel It had me kneel — Cocaine pupil White I do not respond Belong To the light I was gone Second sight Are you in the wrong Or am I in the right? — Dopamine seeps Out Keeps out I have no doubt There is a route And I could be devout Something about A normal life Without a knife Befall it I call it Sylvia Plath strife You’re a housewife I cry because my veins Had retracted My poems were redacted My life re-enacted I was tamed An experiment defamed A broken mirror framed They had me renamed Somehow I remained They never saw me the same The end was the endgame The end was my pen name A pill may keep me alive But the poem in me died And in my stride Though I learned to survive I thrive I am empty inside Drug me into oblivion I am a blade made of obsidian
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I Don't Want To Be A Dentist 02:28
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Let the record show That I came I saw I was told to go I’m here now though And want you to know That I love being employed even so And have always wondered why teeth regrow The best advice is to take life too slow So I’ve decided to try dentistry Willingly With mental stability And an affinity For tooth debility And though I’m not permitted in my ability To practice medicine within this vicinity I’ve decided that it’s not for me And this is where I should be Hear my plea Yes I know much about this job’s realities I myself have countless cavities and gum disease I am everything this job needs A bitch who reads Lives and breathes Intrigues Believes In work weeks of four Bank account 6 then more No more shitty credit score No more debt collectors to ignore No more crying on the floor No more ice trays from the dollar store What was the question Do you have any more I haven’t been to the dentist in a while I ain’t got cavity money child ! At work I’ll try not to smile They’ll see the secret lifestyle Halloween candy ass bitch on trial Put it in my file Next to screenshots of my Tinder profile Why did medicine put me in exile Ima phone a friend, what do I dial Yes I was banned from medicine for good Let the record show that I wish a motherfucker would But it’s not like I didn’t do everything I could Being banned from a profession is part of adulthood Or maybe not, I think I misunderstood I don’t want to be a dentist but it’s the best I got A career that wasn’t drab was worth a shot But can I write music all day? No, of course not Not for money, from what I’ve been taught And my happiness can be bought I want plastic surgery and new mascot One that doesn’t get pregnant in the fucking parking lot I want the homeowners association to be fought Let the record show that a bitch counts each flowerpot I want to walk barefoot without a tetanus shot And life to turn out better than I once thought I’m a slob Voted most likely to be robbed and/or rob the mob I’m a key stuck in the doorknob Voted most likely to sit here and sob So please give me this fucking job
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Dirty 30 04:03
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(Randomly talking to my cats and self) I don’t do drugs kids Don’t know what a drug is What human touch is Where my fuckin stuff is I didn’t file my taxes Wear my glasses Took all them blasted classes For blackout flashes Of flicking cigarette ashes Didn’t choose the thug life It chose my parents love life I’m still young, right? But this was never done right I’m only good for one night Won’t hate myself but some might I cruise on straight women Fail as a musician Fail as a physician Bipolar in remission Mentally ill on a mission She’s expecting me to listen In this condition? No bitch All is not forgiven Don't I know Don't I know That there ain't no place for me to go If I got hair it split Here’s a chair now sit Is what I wear unfit? I’m a motherfucker I dare you fuckwit There, there I swear they pay me to not to care I’ll admit I’m no saint Slave to the money, honey Funny ain’t it Baller Dollar bill Dollar bill, ya'll In a Pitt Brad, rad Call my dad It’s not just my ass that won’t quit How can I just kill a man? I’ll kill a man I’ll admit How I’ll kill a man? Show me the button I hit To kill a man for his shit Dirty thirty Coming to your home soon It’ll find you in a lone room In your own tomb Here’s your show tune For your woes, I’m runnin' with my woes With who for whom or who’s who (??) Waste of breath to go to Darts in a blow tube Cupid hearts that don’t shoot I got smarts I’m Fucker of the Arts Catch me on the charts Here comes the boom I never stuck it To 'em I’m A Ruckus Bring it I’m a god among us The bus was Short The fuss was Sport Cut the cord The deepest? First Club? A Fourth Fuck it I’ll pick There’s no bucket I'll kick So suck it I’ll take in under the table I’ll rob a mom from a cradle I’m a bomb And this sitcom? Not on cable So long, Farewell I’m unstable But this ain’t no Edel Weiss The nun was Hateful Christ You ain’t Painful twice I have disdainful eyes And faithful lies You all have ungrateful wives All those Mountain Climbs Sounded nice But there’s no Sound of mind Is this Music? Lose it Out of mine No hound to find Just how unkind Fountain of youth Open you mouth for a tooth Eye for an eye, all rise for the truth That the white lie Was that the white guy Forbade the fruit Cause he knew Knowledge was the root Of evil Ain't that cute? No, that’s the people I’m dirty Unsturdy The steeple Was struck The fall lethal I’m not crunk I got drunk Every thought thunk Got sunk (Unbelievable) So fuck the rules Burn the books Washed in the blood Of my good looks Plenty of fish Too many hooks Too many crooks I don’t play it nice I won’t say it twice I’ll stay quiet They’ll buy it I’ll name the price It ain’t much But I’ve made such If ands and buts It's a bust ! (Kill a man If you must ) Underhand Plunder and Cover up (The fuck I am Fuck this man)
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Fall Guy 02:38
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What do I do when no one here wants me The difference haunts me I’m a Phoenix child, I’m strong see They never really saw me I don’t need a word from you There’s hatred I never knew I guess you knew what to do A broken mirror you saw me through No your words won’t fool me My crown of thorns won’t rule me I’ve known betrayal unduly I will not settle for needless cruelty
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C-4 (feat. Meow Reedwide) 03:14
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Let me tell you how this goes Yeah turn back down your nose This is a life I never chose How do you suppose A glass man that throws Was ready for that door to close? Yeah I guess I do oppose We don’t take no’s For an answer Like cancer There’s a transfer From alright to wrong In every song There’s a bomb I’m C4, what’s she for? They ask, I bask, they need more I’m an explosion You’ve never known one Go slow, no motion I’m chosen Blow open No emotion Your screen is frozen Speakers broken "Cannot compute," says the Trojan Horse out in the open The Queen has spoken My things were stolen It was an omen I belong to no one I am ocean Wide I collide I make tsunamis Not a tide I was a freak, you were my showman Now it’s mine, I was up for promotion I’m an explosion You’ve never known one Go slow, no motion I’m chosen Blow open No emotion I'm on center stage And you are not my showman Out of the pan I tried my hand Understand Fire were built By liars And guilt Never transpires When every garden must wilt For wild desires Wildflowers were meant To realize hours dreamt Survivors I dissent I’m a song that never tires Time spent Is no money It’s funny How I was so bent On fight But the flight Out of this life Is not strife It’s the night You let the thief go And throw out the knife I am not spite I am in spite I ignite And the light At the end Was a bang But like The white Page Not like a rage It’s how I went out I’m no longer about Explosions for a stage In this world Coming of age Was learning To disengage Burning The bridge Never returning to a cage I’m C-4 What’s she for? Don’t ask me anymore

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The true story of my never ending fall from grace, inspired by the bizarre last year. Dedicated to those who owe me money for therapy.

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released June 19, 2023

Photo credit: Amy Thorne

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