Nik List - Red Chapel

In this red chapel
There's blood on the floor
I cut my apple with a scalpel
My apparel don't need anything more
Than a bed a blanket a bible
And a bouncer at the door

Consumerists sold me a toy
An experience I'm expected to rate
Boy you call this joy?
Me I think I'll wait

I thought of a dream I once forgot
A tune too extreme to be taught
A bare room with only a pot
One in which love
Couldn't be sold or bought

On Sunset Boulevard
A fortune teller read my cards
She said I put in the hard yards
And that cold sweat
Got me passed the guards

I no longer pay rent
I only make amends
I collect the letters I sent
I dance on Lent with my friends

I smear myself
In filthy shades of gray
It might sound weird
But for the sake of my health
I do it every day

My dance with the devil
Came with a cost
I danced and I fought
Some tales I can't tell
For my answers might shock

I opened my guts
Color came out
Kept my door shut
I smothered a shout
Felt like a slut a mother a scout
A kick in the butt is how I got out

Don't expect white collar
Drug dealers to heal
They'll fight for every dollar
Steal wheel and deal
Plug a pill and leave you to rot
These thugs kill with every drug they drop

I'm on the Midnight Express to nowhere
A flight by night to an address out there
I stripped my needs and my leaves bare
My kite's now carried by the breeze in the air

Rich in goods
Ragged in spirit
I ditched what I could
Bagged it and cleared it

Kneel in a pew
Or deal with my ghosts
I'll be damned if I do
But I'll be damned if I don't

When my ship sank
I drank myself dead
I peered in the dark
And I found a friend
Our talks appear weird
So we pretend
Life is a lark we don't recommend

No tree can grow to heaven
Without roots in hell
Fruits are rotten
Gains ill-gotten
As far as I can tell
This garden of Eden isn't a garden
I beg your pardon
It's plainly a cell

Captain of whatever is within me
My sand castles and the skeleton key
My rascality is totally free
Acid and alkaline
It's the only one you'll ever need

Written by:
Nik List

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