Intoxication
Kicking the shrieking clock at 4:00pm
From a crack in the dark sky comes a boredom without a name
Running out of highlights
Schadenfreude
How crude, can you hear the knock at the door?
Since the day you disappeared,
I who might have been possessed by that ghost
Fell into a trance and completely lost it, and so I don’t remember anything
The days that I bring to an end just by breathing
The mornings on which my eyes open to the noise of something shattering
This so-called fair exchange is a fake; it’s a rough time
Going out night after night, I can’t seem to hit on it
Morning, noon, and evening, just wanting to forget
I’ll believe it even if it’s a lie
But I’m not listening; the endless rally between gazes
Goes back and forth; their form is evaporating like a gas
It’s a smog-stained room with no lock, so if you want to lay waste to it, go ahead
Done down in Chinatown
The cloudy sky is so serene, my eyes blurred over and muted
Being corrupted by the internet and diving in
A hanger on the eaves fluttering down; there’s no happiness and no future for me
A teenager lights it up in the alley; even that becomes routine
Taking a flight over this city that has me at my wit’s end
With my hopes at 9%,
The truth is, I still know this place isn’t hell
Ghost, flicker out, disappear from my sight
Don’t teach me love a second time
I’ve no strength left; the sound of my worn-out boots
Striking the ground is hollow
“I miss you so much” “You shine brightly even on your own”
Dyed in this night, endlessly piling on
Using both hands, make it blossom, then erase it from your mind
Throw away the circuit breaker and return those forsaken hopes
Still unable to erase the figment of my imagination
Which I crushed on the asphalt that wouldn’t dry,
I miss you so much. “You shine brightly even on your own”
But now, I’m just living, inside this room
The flowers that bloomed in waste oil, whose names I don’t know
And the dream that I’d embrace if I healed someday
Are under the watch of despair, a sentinel with half-closed lids
Today I’m sleeping more deeply than usual
Once again, submerging just me
For the most part it’s me clinging to your hand
Ghost, flicker out
Don’t teach me love a second time
I miss you
“You’ll shine brightly even on your own” Hey, you’re the one shining brightly
Dyed in the night, piling on and on…
Ghost, flicker out, disappear from my sight
Don’t teach me love a second time
I’ve no strength left; the sound of my worn-out boots
striking the ground is hollow
“I miss you so much” “You shine brightly even on your own”
Dyed in this night, endlessly piling on
Using both hands, make it blossom, then erase it from your mind
Throw away the circuit breaker and return those forsaken hopes
Still unable to wipe my mind, which crashed
As I sat on the asphalt that wouldn’t dry
I’ve grown tired of you; I’ll shine brightly even on my own
I’m just continuing to live inside this room
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