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Black Tears

from Black​-​Painted by Pyrophoria

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There was a black eye
Laugh track backed by
Tears to pat dry
Black tears to cry
I don’t know why I try
My music is shame
No one knows my name
But I never wanted fame
All my life I’m to blame
You are different, hard to tame
I was meant to be a flame
My songs read the same
We have to end the game
But it hurts too much to make that claim
There’s nothing we ever overcame

I say I’m not sad but I got hurt really bad
Most of the time I’m mad
But sometimes I cry about what I once had
Today I want to just leave
Today I want to just grieve
Today my heart breaks on my sleeve
I just thought of Sylvia Plath
Maybe if I were to take that path
My words would be heard in the aftermath
And that would be that
I just want to see change but it all falls flat
The world is black
The world is it’s own suicide attack
I flee the train track
Because they simply go back
Around
To the sound
Of poems falling to the ground
I want to never be found
But I still stand nevertheless
I don’t know why, I confess
Rebellion if I had to guess
Stockholm syndrome faithfulness
This is a poem and it’s not meant to impress
That is not what should make art a success
And really I would just like to see that less

I don’t know where I’m supposed to go now
Does the booed off stage take a bow
I don’t know how
To go on
In this song
It’s been so long
Since I’ve seen the dawn
That I think it might always be gone
And maybe I’m wrong
But the sound is not of my mind
I do not find
Peace when I’m scared blind
I won’t ask for a sign
Cause it’s that I’ve been left behind
And I have teeth to grind
Can’t return in kind
I say I’m fine
I take what’s mine
As they wear my shine

My tears are black because my soul
Eyes are to the window and it takes a toll

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from Black​-​Painted, released December 21, 2021

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The one woman band from Atlanta, Georgia.

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