What Really Grinds My Gears
I was watching Family Guy the other night
When I saw sommething I thought was hilariously wierd
Peter had been given this newscast job, telling what reall grinds his gears
I gazed and wandered
Intercoursed in and out of my thoughts as I pondered
"What really grinds my gears?"
Is it when people are standing over me when I'm drawing
or when people wanna be control freaks and have no clue what they're doing
or people who think they can sing but can't hit a single note
yea, you know the ones that won't shut up
make you wanna turn around and punch them in the throat
or when thug nerds play fantasy street games that always end the same
six feet under a pile of dirt
or when from graceful lights
the might of darkness lurks
"What really grinds my gears?"
Maybe when lies about bringing our troops home
cause families to spend 635600 minutes
year by year
worrying over their war heros
Maybe the way you misunderstand me
but am sorry to say its because you don't know me
so I speak with literacy
to give you illiterate idiots dislexia when you try to read me
Maybe when people say "You think you smart?"
Why? Cause I want my intelligence to spread as wide
from this side to this side
across the wings of the world's largest bird
So I have delivery trucks to drop off bucks and bucks of books
that I burn a hole through
cause I like to fuck with words
"What really grinds my gears?"
Maybe when open-minded people would shred the box from inside-out
and the close-minded fools would assemble the tiny pieces like a puzzle
so they can muzzle you
because no one can be different
they're only life's printers producing photocopys
trying to rob you of your originality
"What really grinds my gears?"
Doesn't really matter to you
Because I'm just an ordinary person
in this room
in this society
an alienated murmur
that lurks the dark
marking each of you as a target
so that I can reach out and touch you
with my voice
because I have one
But--
"What really grinds my gears?"
Are the people who choose not
to hear it
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