Telling your life story Leaving out the facts Time travels sideways Turkeys go quack Nothing that happens Is ever your fault Look inside a mirror See who you're not Crazy as a hound dog With a pigeon up its ass Fantasize a future Wish away the past Nothing that happens Is ever your fault Look inside a mirror See who you're not Blood on all your garments Dripping from your hand But you never stop saying You're an innocent man Nothing that happens Is ever your fault Look inside a mirror See who you're not By Richard W. Bray
Archive for the ‘denial’ Category
wish away the past
November 26, 2022Fragrant Thinking
November 6, 2022My doctor said "Your thinking stinks You're sick inside from all them drinks You need to fix what's in your head Or else you're gonna wind up dead" Fragrant thinking Keeping people sane Try to stay happy But don't deny the pain Fragrant thinking You're gonna make mistakes Don't emphasize the negative And give yourself a break Fragrant thinking Focus on yourself Don't waste your time obsessing About everybody else Fragrant thinking Serenity Prayer Change the things you can Who said life was fair? Now I filter everything All the stuff I say and think Eliminating all the shit That don't serve me no benefit by Richard W. Bray
If You Don’t Tell Yourself the Truth, You’ll Go Crazy
October 27, 2022I read a lot of books About psychology and stuff Crammin knowledge in my head I’ll never get enough Tried to figure out Why some people fall apart Wondered if the problem’s In the head or in the heart The answer is so simple And amazy If you don’t tell yourself the truth You’ll go crazy Deception is a poison It destroys and complicates Honesty alleviates It cures and it regenerates Living all those lies Is gonna rot your loving soul Heal your wounded heart And let yourself be whole The answer is so simple And amazy If you don’t tell yourself the truth You’ll go crazy
When you don’t wanna know what you know
October 6, 2022"To see what's right in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." –George Orwell When you don't wanna know What you know It takes a massive toll It'll singe your living soul When you don't wanna know What you know The fables that you tell The fiction that you sell When you don't wanna know What you know What people say and do What's right in front of you When you don't wanna know What you know His face is full of doom He smells like cheap perfume When you don't wanna know What you know When you don't wanna know What you know When you don't wanna know What you know by Richard W. Bray
The thing that’s always there
January 24, 2022The thing that's always there In the alcoves of your mind The thing that makes you lie The thing that makes you blind The thing you never mention When you try and talk sense Gossip, movies, politics And current events The thing that's deep below And always at the surface The ghost in the attic The phantom in the furnace Try and stay busy Avoid, disrupt, deny Wash your brain with booze It never leaves your side by Richard W. Bray
From Wichita to Omaha
January 16, 2022You can build yourself a mansion On a big ole pile of sand You can fabricate a future In never never land You can look inside a mirror And see a fantasy You can dream away your future On what's never gonna be Can't get from Wichita to Omaha If you're stuck in Timbuktu The things you did are on the way To things you're gonna do You can make believe you're someone else And dream a happy dream But being who you wanna be Starts with coming clean You can wake up every morning And tell yourself a lie You can repeat it and repeat it Until the day you die You can keep on treading water And never wonder why Or you can grab life by the collar And look it in the eye Can't get from Wichita to Omaha If you're stuck in Timbuktu The things you did are on the way To things you're gonna do You can make believe you're someone else And dream a happy dream But being who you wanna be Starts with coming clean by Richard W. Bray
a man-hating woman and a woman-hating man
September 8, 2021a man-hating woman and a woman-hating man raised a couple kids in a pool of quicksand daughter got away and overcome the sad angry little mama's boy blames everything on dad a man-hating woman and a woman-hating man smells and yells and warning bells forty years of rage and they never even knew they built their own cage by Richard W. Bray
Neurosis is My Superpower
December 1, 2018Have you tried
Covering your ears
Closing both your eyes
Ignoring life for years
Repeating soothing lies?
Neurosis is my superpower
So long as I don’t leave the tower
Have you tried
Talk, talk, talking
About everyone you know?
Make it super shocking
And never stop the show
Neurosis is my superpower
Spreading bullshit sweet and sour
Have you tried
Rewiring all the neurons
Dashing through your head?
Tell yourself you’re pure in
The things you did and said
Neurosis is my superpower
Eating lies and shitting flowers
By Richard W. Bray
someone to blame
November 11, 2018Your life is full of pain
Things you can’t explain
You find someone to blame
So every problem is the same
You’re a little bit neurotic
And your ego’s really weak
You’re a scared little lamb
And a fixating geek
Thinking hurts your head
Everything turns red
You focus your frustration
On a person or a nation
You’re a little bit neurotic
And your ego’s really weak
You’re a scared little lamb
And a fixating geek
Will quiet desperation
Explode in devastation?
Will you drive yourself insane
Hiding from the pain?
You’re a little bit neurotic
And your ego’s really weak
You’re a scared little lamb
And a fixating geek
by Richard W. Bray
hang dang dibble
November 3, 2018I could be a little bitch
But I’d rather be a man
Ain’t gonna let no woman
Tell me who I am
Don’t know hang dang dibble
And I don’t really care
How she’s looking tonight
Or the way she cuts her hair
I’m gonna have another beer
I’m gonna play it where it lays
Till it all disappears
In a honey-colored haze
Don’t know hang dang dibble
And I don’t really care
If she found another lover
To take her everywhere
Don’t matter that she loved me
Like nobody ever did
Won’t get hung up on a feeling
Like a stupid little kid
Don’t know hang dang dibble
And I don’t really care
Living in the past
Won’t never get you anywhere
By Richard W. Bray