Deception

Nobody knows the way I feel.
The shit that I go through is so unreal.

It's like everyday it gets worse and worse
Until I want to lie down in the back of a hearse.

The problems keep piling up everyday.
It's enough to make anyone fucking insane.

It started when I was younger, when I was just a little girl.
The day my brother left me in this cold and lonely world.

Then I thought about my sister and I thought she'd always be.
But then she left me too. I guess she needed to be free.

Then I had my "friends" if you could really call them that.
Only a few of them ever stood by me and I'll always have their backs.

I feel like there's nothing left anymore because everything real is gone.
They left me here to drown in my tears. Now everything is wrong.

But that's not it. That's not the end. There's more to this loathsome song.
There's another that I'm missing and I've missed him for so long.

It seemed he was much younger than the papers said he was.
We never saw it coming. But then again, who really does?

He laid there in that hospital bed for days and months on end
Knowing that, not far away, death waited round' the bend.

He didn't whine and complain at all like most of us would do.
He just sat there, quietly, patiently, watching the people pass through.

Finally it was his turn. It came, his time to die.
But the cruelest twist in all of this?

I never got to say goodbye . . .

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I miss you, Mike!

In Loving Memory of
Michael McDonnell
1945-2005

Rest In Peace, "Dad"