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Lithium

from Jack but Jill by Pyrophoria

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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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from Jack but Jill, released October 14, 2021

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The one woman band from Atlanta, Georgia.

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