living easier now
scraped together the dollars to eke out the summer
try to relish the swell
without eating yourself back to basics
back the choke of the collar
the wallet that leads you around
living easier now
Turned out an exception;
born proletariat while for everyone else
their closing the shelters
see ten dying strangers if you don’t
Keep your eyes to the pavement when you're walking around
living easier now

I don't know what to tell you
My microphone is busted my jaw's rusted shut; I've been chastened by lust
I've been redeemed through trust
I'm just like you some times I can see the future
sometimes I'm new
sometimes crimson and clover
sometimes I’m just over

the critic hates to talk about her work
when you go and see her
leave your red pen in your purse

Living easier now,
Breathe your life in an out
Back to the smoke
without fire acquired
in a lush of a town
the past stuffed in its mouth
swings its fists all around,
when asked to spit out
hits the weakest among us
growing accustomed by now
born to be the lion they ground your teeth down
got your own language now


I'm not trying to sell you
Some line that I've bated
I've been weighted by bated breath leaden dreading the walk down your steps
I'm just like you stagnated by a memory
walking around like i’ve been called back from a reverie
its a slow motion race to escape from the everyday
Brutus knifes an intern for a line on the resume
we’ll talk about in the break room i’ve got lunch free on saturday

the critic hates to talk about her work
when you go and see her
leave your red pen in your purse

and if i’m as shallow as a hasty grave
if at the end of my life i’ve got nothing to say
i just hope you’re there to parse the guilt from the grace