• Just cut me up!
    Laugh in my face.
    Just push me down!
    Lay me to waste....

    The whole world's a crowd,
    Surrounding me!
    Constricting, predicting,
    Making it so hard to breathe!

    And I fall back!
    Illusions dancing 'round me.
    I can't see straight;
    I'm thinking, so confounding!
    I'm on the ground...
    The world is laughing.

    Too dizzy too go on,
    Everybody wants me gone.
    After all, it won't be long;
    You can't tell me that I'm wrong!

    I struggle dumbly to stand up,
    They keep me down, pinned.
    I stand up,
    The audience backs away.
    Stumbling back and forth,
    I try to stay triumphant.

    I look up, I look out;
    Nobody's there.
    I cry out, I call out
    Echoes of despair.

    Peaceful memories
    Will haunt me,
    Because there's none left for me.

    In my dreams,
    I see things,
    Some that make me optimistic.
    But they're fake; a fantasy.
    False hope.