Phantom Limb

He's facing

10 years in the pen and

He said to me

If you wanna stay on track

Its not about what you want

But what you need

Two quarters of a life spent feeling

Repressed and depressed and ingesting

Mind altering substances in jest

I said to him

Why'd it take so long

To come to the realization you were doing it wrong

And he said

Whats the difference between a crisis

And an unfamiliar fix

You can learn from your mistakes

But you can't teach an old dog new tricks

Young, dumb, and full of cum

You came on the lawman's lawn

Old, bold, and full of mould

You rot into the fold

Now you have to spend your years

Locked up in constant fear

Drugged up to numb the pain

Haunted by past mistakes

Carried on without him then

His advice was solicited

But I could never be one of those men

Sob story on the corner of some back street

Bad dope overdosing on the concrete

Take the bus from emergency to parole

Sun's down crawling back into the manhole

So im at the pawnshop on a Monday

I just sold our wedding rings

And the photographs from Las Vegas

I tossed them out in their fucking frames