A Scream for Freedom | poetry.

Track 9: The Dark And All His Friends

"The Dark and All His Friends"

[Jack Wolf]

And I stopped dancing around

When the world stopped going round

Breaking down on my empty room

I realize there's no one who can tell me the truth

Everything's falling around me

And I don't see a way out for this

My parents come with the same talk every day

"Get new friends, learn how to be a man"

My friends come with the same talk every week

"Back off your parents, be who you wanna be"

And confusion became my new friend

A friend that can be my quicksand

And I stopped dancing around

When my world stopped going round

I swear I saw the devil the other day

He laughed at my face, pulled my hair and said

"You're never gonna get out of this"

I woke up right after and cried in the following minutes

What would be of me without my school's teacher?

I say this 'cause he helped me when I was weaker

But a teacher's company is not enough to full the space

That's left in blank when you don't seem to fit in any place

And lonely became my new friend

A friend that can be my quicksand

And I stopped dancing around

When my world stopped going round

Life just trapped me in the dark

And she has no mercy, I think she wants me to die

Where's the light I used to see here?

Where's the joy, the smiles, just when I need?

I wake up and I notice the silence

I walk around and everybody seems to be hiding

Hiding themselves from me or from who I am now?

Hiding themselves from the me that I just found?

And dark and silence became my new friends

Friends that can mean my quicksand

And I stopped dancing around

When my world stopped going round

Sometimes my feets go to the kitchen

And they seem to already know ehat they're wishing

There's a knife in the dinner table and I just think

I think of ending with it all and it doesn't look like a sin

But then some external force pulls me back to the beach

And tells me that I was almost dying under water

I try to tell him that peace is just something I can't reach

But the force tells me there are more things that matters

And death almost became my friend

A friend that could be my quicksand

And I stopped dancing around

When my world stopped going round

Breaking down on my empty room

I was crying so much that I barely saw you

And I should've locked my room before

'Cause I cried more when you closed that door

Even under my sheets, I didn't feel the heat

That once was a part of me

Where was everyone when I needed more attention?

I used to be special, now I suffer of rejection

And cold became my new friend

Along with the others, turned into my quicksand

And I stopped dancing around

When the world stopped going round