Trapped
In a sea of misinformation
Degradation
Deformation
Seeking out what's true
And what's not
From my little island of isolation
In a nation
That judges
Smudges
The lines we're told not to cross
But we do
Again and again
Because we're lost.
Strung up on the cross
To bear the shame of society
To cleanse our souls
Without dignity
Humanity
Based on our temporary insanity
Instability
Inability
To do more than survive
And get buried in lies
Of our making
Faking
Shaking
Whilst we're sinking
From drinking
From drugs
From pain
From trauma
Mourn her
The girl you used to be
The person you are now
Doesn't have capacity
To see
Beyond borders and time
Into a past life
Into the dark side
Because it's gone
In the blink of an eye
To some
To you it's a decade
It's more
It's immortal
It goes on and on
This retribution
This penance
This testing
To see if you come undone
It's exhausting
And you're tired
When does it stop?
When is it enough?
You've paid in blood, in tears, in time
You've paid in past, present and future
For your crime
And it's still not yours to dictate
How ironic
Not being able to control your own fate
You change
You grow
You work
You show
Progress
Slow, slow
Consistent
Persistent
Dedication
Diligent
Pure
But your dragged back into the dirt
Like the filth you were before
Under the foot of the moral
With the upstanding sense of self
Self defence
Dignity
Decency
All you could never be
Shadow Fran
Shadow can
Throw your light and life into the dark
Pull that rug
Pull your fibres apart
Strike at the heart
To show the world
LOOK see here
The liar
The town crier
Will rid the world of dirt and crime
Dirt and grime
Wash the past clean
Show the people what needs to be seen
The boy who cried wolf
With the black sheep bleating
Defeating the enemy
Hey now, mrs morality
Let me share some wisdom from my criminality
We don't all have an ivory tower to cast judgement from high on above
We don't all have safety nets, and families filled with love,
We don't all have morals as black and white as you,
Because sometimes, some of us have to choose
It's me or it's you
It's life or it's death
Its now or it's not.
The shitty option
The one we know is wrong
But the one that keeps alive
Just a little longer.
Don't preach to things you don't understand
And bury your equals in the sand
Like some dirty secret
Because it offends your delicate heart
Because we're kinder and truer
Than you would dare to be
And in the growth
In the change
There's an honesty
You couldn't understand
As you grand stand.
With press, with papers, with malice, with hate
I'd rather be me than you
Because I know who I am
I've reconciled my demons
And stay true to that
Who are you to judge me?
So many years after the fact?
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
I guess we will leave it at that.
