The Hook

I'm a puppet, you have control of every string except one
the one connected to my tongue
i just use it to sing lullabies, they go something like "we ain't like the other guys
we say exactly what we think, push one another to the brink" that's where we grow. absorb the lowly fashion, believe the others drastic, and hard of hearing
see the finish line? we passed it
this is the winners circle, doesn't it feel all too familiar?
this is patent pending, they can't resemble me or you - we're about to start a coup
i believe in everything, and you believe in some, pacify me translating words that mean we're never done
i talk in the future, you talk in the past, so we're never really
here
conversations span a year, you're everything my dear
never mind the same page, this isn't the same book
but you put out the line, and i repeatedly get the hook

Loose In A Cloud

I took a razor to all the labels on my clothes, that's as far as embroidery goes. A clean slate, a cheap date. the last summer lasted a minute, coming up it's gonna be a mile, I'll go out in style. i get high like the sky, let my thoughts loose in a cloud, they bounce around and lose their earnestness, this relationship is earning us an honorary degree in monogamy. off the market, I'm charming but shy, and I know you ain't the type. I'm devoted to you, I've got nothing to lose, opportunity comes knocking, it can take the door of the hinges, I'm not listening, you give me tunnel visions. you say you never will elect me, i'm scared of the dark, not your bite but your bark. your words plant a stake in my moon and they revolve around my perception, pervade every thought with an honorable mention, this happened too soon, I'm strange and I'm small and you alone answer my call. everything that isn't you is imitation, i sin with patience. you assign a different penance daily, i commit to atonement, its continuous, I'm into you.