The stranger
the stranger in his room, the day is not here yet
in his bed a girl, it's my body sold
in his arms an anguish, my consciousness cold
the stranger in his hands, my heart gets stiff
in his head, a story has started
in my head, I’m not even thinking of it
the stranger on his carpet, my cloths spread
on his skin, red moons where my nails cut through his lust
on my skin, just a growing disgust
just want to leave, wait for the first train
at my feet his prayers and my silence
at his feet the remains of my innocence
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Jilted generation.
February. Time runs. It rolls over our fears like a tank heavy and cold. And yet our chains don’t break. We’re still bound to a past we’ve never seen. We dream it, we draw it. Like an ideal. It was definitely better. Before. Better than that. Better than that we repeat, with our eyes full of a nostalgia we don’t understand. Better than that. Because we can’t be living for that. Because there should be something else. Somewhere. Something more. Because our smothering reality can’t be anything more than a dream. A bad dream. We’re going to wake up.
February. But we don’t wake up. And there’s a nod down our throats. It’s hard to breathe. And we’re thinking to ourselves : tomorrow, what are we going to do? And tomorrow, what are we going to say? Probably nothing. Nothing more than today. And we’re thinking to ourselves, maybe…and it hurts to hope. Because we know. We know that tomorrow won’t be better than today and that no one’s going to save us.
February. No future, just a past. And eyes to cry for it. Thinking to ourselves that we’re still young, but we already know that we won’t get the life we wanted. That we won’t even get the death we wanted. Thinking to ourselves that we’re still young, but we already live in the past. Overtaken. Not adapted. This century smothers its revolution and leaves us on the edge of the highway panting. Thinking to ourselves : no, there’s nothing we would like to do, and no, we will not surrender. Thinking to ourselves that we would like to be happy for a while, but we somehow forgot what it means.
February. Only 4pm. And nothing else to do. Just wait until it’s over. Run in circles like a trapped animal. Or bury our heads under pillows and wait to die. Believe that considering the way we’re breathing, we will eventually pass away. But nothing happens, we’re staying here, between the bed and the tub. We’re staying here, staring at the air and our insanity.
That’s just how it feels. Being Jack’s cursed souls. We should have remained perched on our old street lamp. With the angels. We’re Jack’s cursed souls. Solitary birds on a wire. And we’ve lost our heroes. Our ideals. Our dreams. We’re like gypsies without a guitar. Like miners without a lamp. And they don’t even imagine how much we don’t belong here. Detuned. We’re not like them. We’re not like them and no, we don’t want to be like them. We’re Jack’s cursed souls. And we wouldn’t exchange our pain for their blindness. It’s kind of a damnation and sometimes we would like to be like them. But finally, we like our little damnation. Because we wouldn’t be much without it. So we pretend, to adapt, to merge, to be happy. Sometimes we party too much, and they despise us for it. When we spit it out, they say we’re jackasses, or insane, or worse, immature. We’re having our teenage crisis, and if we’re over thirty, then we’re fucking weirdoes. So we keep our mouths shut. But we have so much to say. And we stay alone on our wires, trying not to fall. We’re clutching our lucidity, our silly hopes. And we’re still young, but no matter how many times we whisper it to each other in the dark, we remain Jack’s cursed souls.
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They call you God. But I don’t believe in you. I’m sorry. I don’t think you exist. Anywhere. Anytime. But if you do, I apologise.
I apologise for being rude and disrespectful, and despising you. Really. I’m sorry. I’m sorry I yelled at you.
I was blind, I was angry, I was aching. I had no excuses.
When I think about it, I should even thank you. Thank you for making me lucky. Because maybe I’m not happy, but I sure am lucky. You give me everything. Comfort, love and success. For free. And I take it for granted. I took it for granted. I didn’t see how lucky I am. I didn’t see I had it all. So I spoiled everything.
They call you God. But I don’t believe in you. Yet you give me everything. Anything I want, I get it. But I want more. I’m a spoiled brat and I want more. I want my own piece of heaven. I demand heaven before I die. And you give.
For free. Or so it seemed. In the beginning. Heaven wears out very quickly down here. I got my own special piece of heaven. But its taste changed. Sweetness vanished. It shifted into shades of sour and bitter. And now, I pay. I pay for all those parcels of land I stole from the dead. I go through hell instead. My own special piece of hell. I deserved it.
Now I know. That you always pay for extras. When the credit runs out you have to pay back. With interests. That’s how it works. So I pay. I pay for old sins. I pay for new sins.
They call you God. And I don’t believe in you. I’ve been looking for you to ask if we can make a deal. But I haven’t found you. I’ve been calling for the devil to come and make a deal. But he’s too busy. So I cope alone. And I get sick and tired. And angry sometimes. Because hell is long, and heaven is fleeting.
They call you God. I don’t believe in you. It’s a shame maybe.
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The meaning of life was standing on the edges of time, rocking backwards and forwards like a prophet. He said :
Some explosions in the sky are singing on the edge of my consciousness.
He said :
Worship life, because it can make you die
Worship death, because he’s fed up with being feared
Worship words, because they can make you feel real
Worship music, because it can save your mind from madness
Worship sex, because it can make you feel complete
Worship electric guitars, because they can make you feel alive
Worship dreams, because they can bring you somewhere else
Worship drugs, because like gods they can make you free and enslave you
Worship pain, because it can resurrect you from numbness
Worship love, because it can make you blind
Worship beauty, because it expresses nothing
Worship me, because I only can give a meaning to your breath
And in a roll of thunder, the meaning of life went back to nowhere.
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