This. Seems. Familiar.

So I decided to let my mother and her nasty boyfriend argue themselves out to their heart's content. I'll come back in an hour or so when they are passed out, at the liquor store, or too lazy to move.

I decided to walk down to the neighborhood park just to hang out for a little while. I turned up the volume on my ipod with the ear buds already in my ears as I walked down the sidewalk toward the park.

A familiar tune began to echo in my ears. I smiled as the beat got faster and the singer began to scream into my ear.

Yeah here we go for the hundred time
Hand grenade pins in every line
Throw ‘em up and let something shine
Going out of my ----ing mind

Filthy mouth, no excuse
Find a new place to hang this noose
String me up from atop these roofs
Knot it tight so I won’t get loose

Truth is you can stop and stare
Run myself out and no one cares
Dug a trench out, laid down there
With a shovel up out of reach somewhere

Yeah someone pour it in
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in

I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper just to throw it away
Just to throw it away, just to throw it away

I bleed it out, go, stop the show
Choppy words in sloppy flows
Shotgun, I pull, lock and load
Cock it back and then watch it go

Mama help me I’ve been cursed
Death is rolling in every verse
Candy painted on his brand new Hearse
Can’t contain him he knows he works

F--- this hurts, I won’t lie
Doesn’t matter how hard I try
Half the words don’t mean a thing
And I know that I won’t be satisfied

So why try ignoring him?
Make it a dirt dance floor again
Say your prayers and stomp it out
When they bring that chorus in

I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
Just to throw it away, just to throw it away

I bleed it out
I’ve opened up these skies
I’ll make you face this
I pulled myself so far
I’ll make you face this now

I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
Just to throw it away, just to throw it away

I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out, digging deeper just to throw it away
I bleed it out digging deeper just to throw it away
Just to throw it away, just to throw it away

I bleed it out
I bleed it out
I bleed it out

I arrived to the park just as the song ended with random clapping. Now I was somewhat happy. That song always brightened my cloudy day when I was down.

I noticed a lone swing blowing in the wind. It looked lonely. I think I'll go keep it company.