Whiskey & Cigarettes

by Homeless Shakespeare

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Whiskey and cigarettes an easy way to an early death
Depression don't you worry I will come and wrap you up in my woolly arms
Keep you warm in this ice cold departure
Time to shoot like the broken arrow of an inebriated archer
Make my larger I still feel feelings
I want to forget all of the words and all their meanings
It's my own death that I'm grieving 'til I notice I'm still breathing
Fire on my breath a dragon's tapestry I'm weaving
Here's me wallowing in self pity for the evening
What a witty way, what a gritty way to be grinning when I'm leaving

I don't want to kill myself I just want to die
I may as well be really when whiskey is all I have to cry
I sit and drink my poison while I watch the world go by
The drama, the comedy, and the romance with just me myself and I

Whiskey take my brain mash it into a fine grain
The pleasure of a silent mind through prowess of a migraine
Playing a mind game with myself until I lose again
The moves are always different but conclusion will never change
Got nothing to lose so I have everything to gain
Like the ability to decipher between feeling love and pain
Cigarettes pirouette as danger lurks within my lungs
Two in one make my heart run make my heart run
Make my heart run make my heart run
Come add me up into a sum I'm nearly done
I need to run away, sweat and tears down my face
Still a better state than I am in today
The clouds have turned from white to grey
There ain't no sunshine, if I stay
If I stay

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released November 12, 2017

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Homeless Shakespeare Leicester, UK

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