of the things that have made me, i count myself lucky.
i consider it fortune for things like how
i wasn't taught at a young age to respect my elders.
i thank goodness for my absence of a father.
he could have taken me out. we'd have gone camping.
i could have learned to wield my body as a weapon.
these are things that i won't be missing.
i remember sitting in the car with my dirty old man
as he explained how "she had asked for it,"
and how "it was her fault."
i'm only glad i didn't take the bait.
i remember telling my mother.
it was the last time i saw my father.
no regrets for what else i've been missing.
because i'm not jealous of a well adjusted family,
only killing time until they learn their anomaly
don't help the wounded ones,
the children all of vengeful fathers.
when everyone i know's still standing in the shadows
of the men who left their mark, i'd rather be left in the dark.
and if our fathers were our role models for god and they failed us,
what does that tell us about our supposed omnipotent savior?
except: we're all born to fiction, daily recreated.
we play the roles from the stories we learned as kids.
who bends down who plays god,
is it fated that every boy on this earth
should have his head stuck up his ass?
we're all just like our dads. we keep learning the same shit again.
and i wonder how long till it ends.
well i remember when my dirty old man told me how i'd grow up
to be just like him when i got old.
what a bizarre thing to be told.
fell into Days n' Daze when I was travelling, thanks to some of my road dogs. I don't have that freedom anymore but I feel a piece of it Everytime I listen to their music. love y'all! thefool309
Like winter branches lined with snow and ice, Sam Ray (Ricky Eat Acid, Teen Suicide)'s latest is delicate, spare, melancholy, and beautiful. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 3, 2018
A surprisingly tender and intimate concept record about long distance love from Cody Votolato of The Blood Brothers/Head Wound City. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 30, 2019
In a more perfect world, this band would blaring out of every radio on Earth. The lyrics, the vocals, the just-outta-teens snark and earnestness... so much to love. paulimboden