this one weird trick

you can stay up late playing video games
you can quit your diet and eat white bread
nobody cares that you didn’t shower
you never have to take your clothes off

there’s a secret language
which can shorten life expectancy
you’ll feel better having learned it
so much taller and braver
with those words in your head

he said why do you think
i am so fascinated with deep sadness

because you’ve never really suffered
your life has been rainy
but never stormy
and never for long

yes but that was months ago
still just a song pushed from an angry throat
with visions of prisons within prisons
how do you like the weather now
now that you’ve seen a tornado