James Joyce
Eloquent Loser
Can I start again
Rebuild from ashes of a rebuilt dream
Will they allow me to change the name
Of such an eloquent loser
Just some words did the trick before
Gave me the excuse I was looking for
I lay down and they thought out loud
He’s such an eloquent loser
Some will die because they’re easy targets
Some will die because
They won’t move from in front of the gun
Some will fight from intuition and somе will run
Will I fight or will I run
Recent memoriеs of a foolish child
Who thought he could see
For no one else had eyes
But what he saw were just handpicked lies
For such an eloquent loser
Grassy fields where he played before
Are now home to land mines and a waiting war
They don’t call his name out anymore
They just cry eloquent loser
Some will die because they’re easy targets
Some will die because
They won’t move from in front of the gun
Some will fight from intuition and some will run
Will I fight or will I run
At the show I stood surrounded and alone
The kids were different
But the same as the year before
And not even I could remember my name
So I ran home and I locked the door
I sat down and I stared at the telephone
I waited for hours but it never rang
Then a man on the TV screen
He told me 500 dead, lost to some tragedy
I turned it off, I was far from their screams
Then I felt numb so I went a while
I fell in love and broke my heart just to feel alive
But it didn’t last, not even a day
So I ran back inside and I tried to hide
My mind’s split in two
One side the judge, one side the jury
The evidence portrayed is firsthand
Witness to all my perjury
But there’s no restitution for my crimes
No justice prevails within my mind
There are no answers worthy
Of all the time it took to ask these questions
The sentence preceded the crime
I condemned myself by creating my own order
Blind