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Time After Time
- once upon a time, there was a little kid alone,
- trapped inside himself,
- confused can't find his way back home, home is hisuu mental,
- and right now he kinda out of it, feelin out of place, almost like
- his life is made of counterfit, the unique thing
- about him, he don't need none of these people
- he can do just fine with out em, one day this kid came home, and his mo
- m and dad was goin at it,
- he was upstairs watchin grandmas attic, he picked up
- a piece of paper, grabbed a pencil and wrote, "the earth
- is the water, so that makes you the boat, people is sea weed and rocks, lurkin down below
- trynna take you under, make sure you don't stay afloa
- t" put a hash down on the bottom, sketched his name
- and froze, he heard a bang down stairs, and then a door
- go boom, he wanted to go down, but
- was too scared to move, he walked down stairs, mom said
- fuck you, and slammed the door on dads nose, dad broke the door,
- and mom tried to throw the remote, it bounced off his chest,
- mom screamed as approached, a 6'7, pure hunk of muscle
- ,he grabbed mom by the throat she was too weak to struggle,
- you heard a hack and a gag, dad dropped her on the floor, the kid just stood and
- watched, he didn't seem to cry, why not even he knows,
- but something he did feel is an outburst of anger,
- he went to the garage, and grabbed a boat ancher,
- asked his dad to play a game, and his dad
- said ig man, he asked whats it called, the boy said real life
- hangman, his dad helped him set it up, just like a pully
- system, the boy said lemme go grab some stuff real quick N, he came back up stairs,
- tied the rope round his dads neck, dad guessed a letter,
- the boy drew a red X, dad guessed em all wrong, and didn't
- know what was next, the boy grabbed the anchor, and out the
- windo it went, his dad
- sprung up, and with not a moment to lose, he tried to untie
- the rope or somehow get it loose, the dads face turned purple,
- and the last breath was took, the boy went downstairs, grabbed a
- pencil and
- notebook, glimpsed at his dad, and took one really good look,
- then over and over, till he drew his dad in the book, his mom
- heard some thud, and came back upstairs, he saw her husband on the floor
- and at first was kinda scared, she got a little closer, and realized
- that he was dead, now the real crazy thing is what happened next,
- the boys mom grabbed the rope, tied it around his neck, pulled back
- a little hard, and heard a little snap, his jumped the window, but
- was cuaght up by a branch, she went back into the house, was
- gonna bury the bodies, but her son was gone, she didn't know what
- happened, didn't really kill him,
- and that he ran out, so she went downstairs, and saw the piece of
- rope laying the couch, she bent over and grabbed it, but as soon as
- she turned around, her son was standing there, and shoved a gun
- in her mouth, the boy shoved it further, cocked backed it back pulled
- the trigger, his moms brains flew all over the wall and the over
- hanging light fixture, all of a sudden, the boy wakes up all sweaty,
- with a piece of paper and pencil from when he wrote, "the earth is
- the water so that makes you the boat, people is sea weed and rocks,
- lurkin all down below, trynna take you under, make sure you don't
- stay afloat" put a hash at the bottom sketched his name then froze,
- his mom called him for breakfast, he smiled sighed and rose,
- walked downstairs, and guess what, on the couch saw a rope.
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