| Moving photos of ghosts
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| Projected against the chemical smoke
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| It closes all around me
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| A taste bitter as paint thinner
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| Switch the sound off, breathe heavily
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| They haven’t found me--
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| Slouched over my desk
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| With my head pressing the keys or
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| Sitting up in bed, scene reflected by the screen
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| Blood pounding in my temple
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| Remote controlled by the feed
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| Fingers slip between the blinds
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| This is what I see outside:
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| Vampires. |
| pedophiles. |
| secret police
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| Threat levels elevated for weeks
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| Feel my blood pressure peak
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| Before I snap the blinds shut
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| Heart beating in the darkness
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| Eating from the box
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| Half-conscious, half-life
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| Full of sad nights spent
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| Re-running my favorite programs over again
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| Light glowing on my skin
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| My face shows no emotion
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| I sink into the sofa like a city sinking into the ocean
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| Is the kitchen in the house? |
| Is the closet in the house?
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| Is the bedroom in the house? |
| Is the living room in the house?
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| Alright then check me out:
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| Lead paint peeling spreading stains in the ceiling
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| Revealing rust, dust, roaches and rats
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| They make a killing. |
| The smell of death is filling
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| What remains of the building
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| 53 sq. feet makes my cypher
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| Complete
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| Whether drooling on my pillow
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| Or laid out on my sheets
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| I keep falling, the TV keeps me falling asleep
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| The world is mine in my dreams
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| I see myself selling myself to myself
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| I feel like hell and cry for help til I’m held
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| Until I’m safe in the arms of my home-body
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| Shut in. Nobody knocks on my door no more
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| Nobody comes in
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| Though I’m sure my existance is a topic of discussion
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| They must wonder what the fuck will be left of the mess uncovered
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| When they finally take a wrecking ball to my bedroom wall
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| I will show them all
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| Something
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| Is the kitchen in the house? |
| Is the closet in the house?
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| Is the bedroom in the house? |
| Is the living room in the house?
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| I don’t go out
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| I just wander the halls
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| Fingers run along the crumbling walls
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| Sick and deformed like the dip in the floor
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| The drip in the kitchen’s on a mission
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| To kill me off, I should’ve died in a crib fire
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| And will before long. |
| Smoke rising from the old wiring
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| Ring the alarm
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| Wish I could decorate the place with the smell of napalm
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| Barricade to save face, never answer the phone
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| Stay away from the shades, try to vanish in the smoke
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| I no longer know If I’m the cancer or the host
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| Can’t manage to cope without damaging my throat
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| Used to make plans to go but they cancelled my show
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| Now I watch Channel Zero for a pattern in the snow
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| From the clock to the mirror to the carpet full of holes
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| Things have gone well beyond a job
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| For pest control…
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| Is the kitchen in the house? |
| Is the closet in the house?
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| Is the bedroom in the house? |
| Is the living room in the house? |