AMERICAN ZEN

Righteous indignation
Living in a bubble
Emotional vacation
Acting like an asshole

I get high & I get low
I get sick & it gets old

I flushed the drugs again
Deleted numbers of my dealers
I’ve got untreated trauma 
& I can’t afford my feelings

I’m still waking up inside me
Expecting someone different
I got lost in self-reflection
& I wonder where my day went

I get high & I get low
I get hot & I get cold

My mother was a snake & my father was a snake
But that don’t make me a snake
That makes me crawl out of my skin
With my Rumblefish haircut & my white Repetto shoes
I’m killing myself with this American zen

I get high & I get low
I get sick & it gets old
I get high & I get low
It gets hot & I get cold

I replace the coke with booze
I replace the booze with sex
I replace the sex with food
I replace the food with TV
I replace TV with sleep
I replace the sleep with dreams
I replace the dreams with shame
I replace the shame with guilt
I replace the guilt with god
I replace the god with money
Replace money with tattoos
Now I’m covered in tattoos
I’m black-out in a breakdown
I breakdown in a black-out