In the Thrall of It All

Go slow

Cruel to himself and generous about it

Cruel to the world, not hard to spot it

Can't give up, shut up on a tirade

Off the top of his head, so ripe becoming rotten

He's hit the wailing wall

To pass out hard upon

He's kissed the wailing wall

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

Failed his name, no care to hide it

Failed escape that's documented

Instilled or distilled, the spike or the chill

It's immolation, the **** of nonexistence

He's hit the wailing wall

To pass out hard upon

He's kissed the wailing wall

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

Headstone tells nothing about him

Headstone reads two decades wasted

A funeral pyre, no one to burn it

Because self-destruction brings misfortune

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

No lower heaven for his bones

Nor handing life back what it's owed

Caretaker careless, what he's sown

Porously reaching his lowest low

The negative has just begun

Joining the war, impossible

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all

In the thrall of it all