Sometimes I can\u2019t open my eyes, the day is not my friend
\nSome days it\u2019s so much harder to try, than it is to just pretend
\nEverything comes around and always fades away in time
\nand all the secrets that you hide, haunt my broken rhyme<\/p>\n
The path I see before my feet is twisting in my head
\nThe sky may look serene and blue, but I can see it turning red
\nAll around me there is nothing more than barren fallow ground
\nI\u2019d break these chains of fear and run, but I know you\u2019d track me down<\/p>\n
Streams of consciousness, self inflicted medication
\nScenes of bitterness, in empty meditation.
\nOnly loneliness is true emancipation
\nOnly everything, insanity\u2026or maybe just frustration.<\/p>\n
Set your focus on the prize you hope you\u2019ll someday win
\nSee the ending, from the point of no return where you begin
\nOnly dreams will stand apart from where you once were young
\nAll the anger that you keep inside until that day will come<\/p>\n
They say the devil runs this place, and hell is what you make it
\nBlinding us with fear and bullshit, but we ain\u2019t gonna take it
\nGive us back our nation, stop treating her like a whore
\nWe\u2019ll teach our children better ways, just like we did before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sometimes I can\u2019t open my eyes, the day is not my friend Some days it\u2019s so much harder to try, than it is to just pretend Everything comes around and always fades away in time and all the secrets that you hide, haunt my broken rhyme The path I see before my feet is twisting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[519,23,12],"tags":[32,33,24,520,37,524,8,522],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jamies-blog","category-poetry","category-writing","tag-add-new-tag","tag-jamie-gray","tag-lyrics","tag-music","tag-original-music","tag-poetry","tag-whatever","tag-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14115,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/musio-is-a-poetry-writing-robot-that-understands-and-interacts-with-users\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":0},"title":"Musio is a poetry-writing robot that understands and interacts with users","date":"September 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally, anyone can write their own songs, with your very own songwriting...well, poetry writing anyway, robot! 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