Inspired By A White Stripes Song

Suffocated in a wounded soul
As I make my way down to Mexico
Meg White is breathing down my back
As Jack sings a song of Jericho
Not sure what I’m doing here
As I've never done the fame thing well
A bus ride to the Pearly Gates
Might as well be a bike ride to Hell

I fortified my southern wall
Just to keep out all the invaders
Put an ocean between you and me
‘Cause you act like a bunch of first graders
Oh, I’m sure I could tour the world
Play all the bars and finally make it
But I swear to God as my witness
That I will grow to despise my biggest hit

I don’t want negative attention
For things I do just for fun
I’m not a monkey on a leash
You can just parade out to everyone
I alone say how I’m going to play
And everyone else can kindly piss off
I’m hardly the kind of superstar
That won’t make you take a taste of Molotov

Sauron

The harsher cold of the fading light
Set the time to hasten the foreboding night
The time creeps in where the nightmares thrive
And we’re lucky to still be alive
We watch the sun fade into a darkened red
A sky filled with the blood of our ungrateful dead
We set here to watch the ever-faithful die
Trapped in the sight of the all-seeing I 

How can the cold consume us all?
Why can the cold destroy a soul?
Where does daylight grow to die?
Why must the darkness make us cry?

Dead leaves like a carpet underfoot
Destined to rot like infested wood
Bugs eat away at the life’s insides
Yet we dare to call it suicide?
As we lay and revel in our hell
Locked away inside a prison cell
No light shines in the concrete sky
Under the watch of the all-seeing I

Is impending death a righteous goal for you?
The winter breeds a cold long overdue
To leave us suffer under this spiteful song
From our hearts left frozen for oh so long

Bathed in the light of the all-seeing I
May be the last thing you will see before you die

November Looms

Welcoming a harvest moon
Nighttime children come into bloom
Soon the raindrops will concentrate
Encompass the world in a frozen dew

‘Til then, this fire will warm your heart
As your mind begins to embrace the dark
Second guessing second nature
As November begins to loom

Watching the colors fade into gray
Losing hope along the way
Winter breeds a death too soon
Perhaps even a bloodless coup?

I’ve watched a tyrant tear us down
As nighttime children gather ‘round
This fire burns inside you too
Desperate ages too late to bloom

The winter’s cold will soon embrace
Every heart that shall partake
In rendering a final word
As November beings to loom

Watching the colors fade to gray
Will hopes and prayers come to save the day?
Snowfall waters, a hopeless brew
Will I still drown here with you?

I’m wary of this blood red moon
A fear sets in as November looms
Can no one save us from Winter’s scorn?
Will any one of us live so long?

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Will Have Her Revenge on the United States

To bear a false witness
For a lack of resistance
And I will bear your cross no more
If nothing is moving
For the point that you’re proving
What is the point of your useless score?

Turn in your robe for a Handmaid’s gown
Subservience known the whole world round
Slave girl, who are trying to fool?
And I will have my revenge on you

You take up my body
As if you now own me
A commodity bred for breeding seed
This life now acknowledged
To your dominant bondage
Bound to reproductive slavery

Turn in your robe for a Handmaid’s gown
Subservience known the whole world round
Slave girl, who are trying to fool?
And I will have my revenge on you

Am I not human?
Just a televised Truman?
Is this how you wish to entertain
Your bought and sold masters?
Repeat your fathers’ disasters?
For a power your sisters could not attain?

Turn in your robe for a Handmaid’s gown
Subservience known the whole world round
Slave girl, who are trying to fool?
And I will have my revenge on you

Turn in your soul for a longer leash
A traitorous hag to patriarchy
Deliver a generational wound
And we shall have our revenge on you

Beholden

I am not beholden to anyone
You are not owed an excuse or explanation
If you feel you have been wronged
Take it up with someone else
I have just dismissed you from my conscience

I am no one’s sidekick or loyal servant
I am only loyal to what brings my ends
I do right because right needs to be done
But sometimes wrongs are righteous, too
And I have deemed you worthy of ignoring you

You are not beholden to decency
Thus why I dismiss you eternally
Enjoy your days as far away
As I stay here in a blissful haze
And no one will ever need to bother you

I am not beholden to anyone
You are not my master or my employer
Why would you want to follow
When you can forge your own road?
I owe you nothing, so leave me be