want to talk about strange? want to talk about weird?
get a load of that freak over there with the beard,
unfocused and lazy,
stares off into space,
thoughts running crazy,
all over the place.
he thinks about god, he thinks about love,
and things most people don’t even dream of.
if that’s not enough,
what’s even more worse,
his thoughts of this stuff
he puts into verse!
want to talk about weird? want to talk about strange?
you know, some normalcy might be nice for a change.
but this guy won’t stop,
this guy won’t quit,
keeps writing this slop,
keeps thinking this shit!
make the thoughts go away now, it’s not hard to do,
and discover just why we’re all glad we’re not you.
let normal thoughts attest,
of conventional things,
to the peace and the rest,
that plain normalcy brings!
“thinking this shit” is good. “stirring this shit” would work too. I often think the shit is so thick it is impossible to stir so why bother? Stirring it just seems to cause a stink that humanity doesn’t like so stirring shit is a lonely job. I think I will quit soon and float in it like normal people.
Nice lyrics rainey. I say ‘lyrics’ because I can almost hear the music that goes with it.
I really like the first line – opening up with a question is a great idea. As an advertising technique I think it has lost its power but it is very effective in a creative piece like this. I was sucked right in.
PS I don’t think English allows the term ‘more worse’? It’s almost like saying ‘more more.’
ha, yes i’m actually quite anal when it comes to grammar and ‘more worse’ is, in fact, incorrect. but i thought in addition to adding a necessary syllable it also added a touch of whimsy. just my thinking anyway.
lyrics, eh? maybe we can get somebody to put this to music and sing it. it seems to me i saw something some fellow around here named Gamer once did with an ILP jingle, if i’m not mistaken. maybe we can prevail upon him to come up with something?
yes i suppose it might enforce his voice. my thinking was that the grammatical error costs him some credibility and the sympathy goes towards the subject of the poem and away from the narrator.
well i have no real first-hand experience, but i’ve always assumed people seek to be ‘normal’ thinking that there’s peace of mind in it. i’ve always thought abnormality scared most (normal) people. no?
