The Land of Because
You Are Correct
Self-Sabotage · Rock Bottom Addiction · Dark Alternative Rock
#VERSE
One addicted life slides down the river
Dances on ice shards in his fantasy
Wishes for death cause life holds no pleasure
Would be in that frozen flow, but has no energy
Can’t muster the guts at age sixty-five
To lean over the bridge and take that dive
Now he’s a Medicaid misfit, a food stamp stoic
Stuck on the streets, hungry, and agoraphobic
#PRE-CHORUS
So, he sits in acceptance
Like the guru Ram Dass
Rides his river of doubt
To the land of Because…
#CHORUS
Ponders…
How did I get here
What is the reason
What’s my excuse
For committing life treason
The worst enemy
There ever was
I brought myself here
To the Land of Because
#VERSE
You know the plotline
May have slid the same slope
By the creek at fourteen
Choking Marlboro smoke
Then by eighteen
Washed the smoke down with a beer
Don’t know your path, but that’s
When mine started to veer
#PRE-CHORUS
Dad lowered the boom
“You must live by our laws!
Why the hell are you drinking?”
I said, “Just because…”
#CHORUS
How did I get here
What is the reason
What’s my excuse
For committing life treason
The worst enemy
There ever was
I brought myself here
To the Land of Because
#BRIDGE
You don’t need the whole story
Cause it runs the same tracks
As that addict you know
Who never looks back
Won’t reflect on the young bud
Who lived for cool clothes
And how that boy withered
To a gray wrinkled rose
#INSTRUMENTAL
#VERSE
I still hear my Dad
Even though he’s long gone
“God damn! Keep that needle
Away from your arm!”
He’d give his life for mine
If it would get me to pause
But I push it on in
“Sorry, Dad, just because…”
#CHORUS
How did I get here
One simple reason
Don’t need clean logic
If you hope to be beaten
If your soul on the inside
Doesn’t know how to love
You dive in that dead river
Why? Just because
Swim among jagged icebergs
To the Land of Because
#OUTRO
I’m the worst enemy
That there ever was
I brought myself here
To the Land of Because
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