The Slow Forward - Well Enough Alone

Well Enough Alone

Oh dear brother beware
When the devil comes
Knocking with gifts to bear
You’re goddamned
Right to be scared
When the man in black
Is standing back
Holding his hat

Sure enough it’s gonna be
Your ass in the fire
Long after the wake
And the funeral pyre

So you outta learn
You’re going to reap
What you sow
And in this life you’re
Only getting one soul

Nothing is ever free
Especially not peace

You’ll wind up saying
‘Oh my God
Has this all
Been a waste
Oh my God
Has this all
Been a game’

I just don’t understand
And I guess I never will
The purpose of this life
And it’s many splendored frills

But when we face the fate
Of that inevitable fall
These lingering questions
Will be all that matters at all

Where have we come from
And where do we go
Maybe those are things
Men weren’t meant to know

Perhaps that’s true
But have no doubt
We are all just dying
To find out

Just breathe, it’s okay
We are equally afraid

Pray for solace
Pray for some
Peace of mind
Because
We’re just animals
With whitened teeth
Politely hiding
The crimson beneath

If any truth really exists
Then certainly this is it
Ignorance is truly
The highest bliss

I’m just addicted to
The nondescript

I just can’t leave
Well enough alone
Although I know better I just
Keeping coming back for more

Maybe a man outta know
When it’s time to go home
But I just can’t leave
Well enough alone

Life’s got me in
Them crosshairs running
Running scared
And I’m running
Running scared

Our mother is earth
So we conspire to kill her
Our father is time
But we’re just his bastards

And it all seems to pass
Increasingly faster
Seconds then minutes
Then hours and calendars

One thing about time
Every old person knows
Is the less that you have
The more quickly it goes

We’re forever awash
In it’s turbulent throes
Being pulled out to sea
While struggling for shores

Placate each other
With winks and with nods
Repeat lies as truth
Until the master applauds

Do all that we can
To keep up this façade
But what order of infinite
Equates to God

And maybe this is
Just a fucked moot point
But there ain’t no parity
In this here joint

What makes you expect
You deserve a quiet peaceful death

Life consumes life
This much we don’t deny
Made of stars who
They themselves cannibalize

What’s our nature
Are we destructors or creators

Just once, only once
I wish I could touch
Something that’s
Greater than me
To have some epiphany

To steal but just a glance
And peer through the cracks
Of this black reality
Presented in front of me

I just want

To be
To touch
To teach
To love
To reach
Beyond
This life
In song
To stoke
Your fire
Awaken
Inspire
To slow
To echo
To know..
There is no end

I just can’t leave
Well enough alone
Although I know better I just
Keeping coming back for more

Maybe a man outta know
When it’s time to go home
But I just can’t leave
Well enough alone

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