RATTLED CAGE

Angry young man you’ll have to wait

the heartache stories are all the same,

they all spill onto a different stage as

the sophisticated crowd chews you away

Ran to  my usual hiding place

Hired hands bailed the hay

Sometimes I convinced myself

My enemies would vanish into space

If I closed my eyes throughout my childhood days

I was taught the value of a hard work from

An early age, but never became your classic

Nine to fiver, the tarot reader stoked my repressed memories

Hey you’re a survivor, broke through the rattled cage of a

An aspiring reformer

I also remember dad flipped over

December’s phone bill, yeah the old guy

Tore a strip, John why

Can’t you try to be normal

For a change