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Chemical Imbalance

from The Significance of Being Nothing by R. Turner

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© Ricky Turner 2012

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i've got a chemical imbalance
or so i have been told
well i never knew deseases
could live inside your soul

i'd like to use it as an excuse
to never leave my bed;
to rot away in silence
and live inside my head

but people have their expectations
of what i ought to do
though no one thought to ask me
if i really wanted to (live or die)

well don't i have a right
to be silent?
don't i have a right
to be bored?
don't i have a right
to feel sadness
when the world is so impossibly cold?

but then i got to thinking
about all the people in the world
who never chose their silence
and yet needed to be heard

o, self pity is a harlot
who only asks for time
she will make you feel so special
as she quickly robs you blind

our time, so often wasted
on the nothings that we crave
while the burning prophets wisdom
will be swept into their grave

do we have the time
to be silent?
do we have the time
to be bored?
do we have the time
for self pity
when the world is so impossibly cold?

i've get a chemical imbalance
but i'm not gonna take no pills
there's no time for all my moping
there's no time to remain still

so i will wake up every morning
yes, i will choose to stay alive
because for every day i'm breathing
there's a silence i could find

why should i lay here weeping
when there's so much to be done?
not to bite the hand that feeds you
but to teach it how to love

can you hear the cry
of the silent?
can you hear the cry
of the bored?
can you hear the cry
of the oppressor?
i say the world doesn't need to be cold

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from The Significance of Being Nothing, released March 30, 2012
Written and performed by Ricky Turner
Zeno Pittarelli: Percussion

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