Started writing bits and pieces and eventually they built up into this. I actually own the rights to the beat this time. Yay!

Lyrics:

Everybody always wants a positive message
You start speaking the truth, they say you're not as impressive
All I'm trying to do is give an honest perspective
And hope some day the words have gotten reception

No one likes tiptoeing through the cognitive wreckage
Misconstruing bad news, call it wrongful intentions
But I'll tell you right now, if you fought with depression
It'll knock you on your ass 'til it's taught you a lesson

When you're alone for a long time you go to a wrong mind
Feels like a long drive, dark with no stop signs
Snail inside a salt mine, picking at a fault line
Suicide hotline calling in a thoughtcrime

Tornado siren leitmotif, led to the practice
Burning bridges to nowhere and preventing attachment
Isolation is complete when memory's imagined
And pleasure has been swallowed up by sensory adaption

Battle cry or death rattle of the powerless
Made selfishness from pain and isolation like an alchemist
Listening vicarious to stories of empowerment
Satisfied by validation, saturating cowardice

Picture all the streetwalkers, can't afford to see doctors
Trapped in a cycle, working desperately to see dollars
Lonely men, moth to the flame of a sweet talker
Guzzling their meaningless affection like it's sea water

Two blocks down the road, I can envision
The army vet in the alleyway in dire condition
Shooting heroin 'cause morphine's an expired perscription
And his country doesn't care if he dies of addiction

Schadenfreude aimed at a narrative fantasy
Is a blind eye turned to a terrible tragedy
Apocalyptic backdrops snare us in apathy
While cosmetic world building has us scared of it happening

Pop culture fiction has us donning a mask
Disguising impact of an economic collapse
Shake your head like an Etch A Sketch and knock all the facts
But you can't erase the bars if you're caught in a trap

Battle cry or death rattle of the powerless
Mixed stress and pain into an addiction like an alchemist
Listening vicarious to stories of empowerment
Satisfied by validation, saturating cowardice