Ball And Chain

Struck me today
Hit me today in quite a different kind of
way
I likened myself to a bubble bumping in to more than double
trouble
Colliding till the bubble bursts
Exposing all that tender skin
When
bouncing back and forth no longer functions
How shall I cope
Embrace the
scope of all my sin

Laugh not in vain for it is plain
This life is more
than just a superficial game
Our feelings lain out on the slab
Another soul
you put down on your tab
This sacrificial lamb bleats not in vain
Get ready
now
Steady now
Get ready steady now it's your turn to be slain

The ball
and chain
The ball and chain is swinging round again
And those like you I
deemed to be my peers they dissipate
Diluted now merely no more than empty
spheres
I count the years review the hollow laughter through these
tears

The ball and chain
Ball and chain it smashes to and fro
Cleaving
shattering illusion with each passing blow
Laying bare the true extent of just
how much that I can count upon
Your sweeping airs shallow judgements I now see
beyond

The ball and chain
The ball and chain is swinging round again
And
those like you I deemed to be my peers they dissipate
Diluted now merely no
more than empty spheres
I count the years review the hollow laughter through
these tears

The ball and chain
Ball and chain it smashes to and
fro
Cleaving shattering illusion with each passing blow
Laying bare the true
extent of just how much that I can count upon
Your sweeping airs shallow
judgements I now see beyond

The ball and chain
Ball and chain demolishing
illusion with each passing blow
The merest hint the slightest sign
Of
discrepancy you turn your tail and run
Making your excuses you put your tail
between your legs you run
You run