Pyrophoria - Old Long Since Lyrics

I'm an amnesiac
Insomniac
In a blister pack
Knickknack
Almanac
Picked up slack
Sidetrack
Pitch black
Payback
22 blackjack
Counterattack
No...come back
I crack
Don't make eye contact
Forget the way in; the way back
The sky was lilac
I found the needle in the haystack
It was there to distract
I'm syntax they redact
I was tracked
Neither here nor there
Nor theres and backs
I remember now that I was kidnapped

I try to forget the page
The cage, offstage, I rage
You can see my rib cage
The wear of the dog days
The memory stays
The memory outweighs
The blaze
Where is the rampage
A fall guy never pays
When he's calling all the plays
I'm the one that everyone blames
I paraphrase
Hell will not raise
But I fanned the flames
The weakest link was in my chains

Days gone by
I don't know why
I grow old but don't comply
Friends don't reply
Don't say goodbye
Time passes by
Like a train that caught my eye
What money can't buy
Is an eye for an eye
Hope that runs dry
A martyr heaves a sigh
I want a new battle cry

For old times sake
Let me think that you eat cake
And that I can overtake
And make
A snake in the grass
Break
I'm a mistake
I wake
At 2am, a foot on the brake
I rewind the videotape
And try to scrape
Myself off
But cannot escape

Old long since
I cannot rinse
Off the unknown tense
Of leaving footprints
Chain link fence
Their line of defense
I brave it in a sense
And a trap presents

I am a song nobody knows
I have words nobody knows
I was meaningless to compose
I'll tell you how it goes
Forget it all and beware of those
Who admire your prose
Who throws
A rose
At all your shows
Bulldoze
Whatever grows
After the music slows
And you begin to doze
And fall into the pool wearing clothes
Make your storybook close
Keep your song but transpose
Don't look back for shadows