Rorschach

Eyes on the screen

We have all the information now

But what does it mean?

Reason's a tease

Drank up all that hemlock

Here I am just reading the leaves

And left wondering

What happened to the life we lost

That got lost in the living?

And all this fiction makes me nervous

Turns out it was blood spilled

On the canvas we admired

Just like some Rorschach painting

The film in your brain

It edits to remember

Keeps the figure in the frame

It's a sacrificial violence

All those passed over in silence

Then cast out with the blame

And I'm trying to stay sane

Meanwhile, the river of forgetfulness

It starts spilling the banks

Caught in a lie and instead of fessing up

We'd sooner just crawl out of our heads

Been holding up my hand

When I should have doubled down on

My own atom bomb shelter instead

Oh, oh, how you gonna hold on?

How you gonna hold on?

How you gonna hold on to everything?

And oh, oh, how you gonna hold on?

How you gonna hold on?

How you gonna hold onto your memories?

And oh, oh, how you gonna hold on?

How you gonna hold on?

How you gonna hold on

When you know that you can't?