Deep Dark Basement

I recall that deep, dark basement

And I recall how bad it smelled

And I hated everybody around me

I even hated myself

Which I still do, on my bad days

You punched my mother in the mouth

We fled to shelter safe and pure

But now I never feel at home

And I will never be secure

Oh, to be secure

And when you pushed my face in shit

How could that have made you feel

Like a man or like a monster

It’s your fault I can’t tell

The difference