Growing Pains

There's a fevered kind of reason,
That kills faster than a bullet,
With a lever that controls it,
And I know you're gonna pull it.
Let it go.

Tripping over trigger warnings,
Throwing flood gates open wide,
So that it all comes pouring out,
Until there's nowhere left to hide.
Just let it flow.

Breaking out of paradise to register complaints,
Electronic mind control and chemical restraints,
Children who were lost have now returned to join the cause,
Tearing down the idols and then ripping up their laws.

Lusty lazy workaholics,
Needy greedy anorexics,
In a life that gives us Melons,
Just to show us we're dyslexic.
So we know.

Sex elects an heir apparent,
Life's inflicted on the pure,
With a lifetime to discover,
Science hasn't found a cure.
Just let us grow.

Breaking out of paradise to register complaints,
Electronic mind control and chemical restraints,
Children who were lost have now returned to join the cause,
Tearing down the idols and then ripping up their laws.

Invisible sailors,
Drift in cardboard seas,
Where the living ain't easy,
And it sure ain't free,
Somewhere in the distance,
There's a lonely voice,
Singing of bad decisions,
Made with no real choice.

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