From the Inside
The California air Your nightgown on the stairs I remember every night Scenes from home in the Quiet Room How long have I been gone Did winter kill the lawn And all those polaroids you sent Are on the wall in the Quiet Room They've got this place Where they've been keeping me Where I can't hurt myself I can't get my wrists to bleed Just don't know why Suicide appeals to me The Quiet Room Is sterilized and white It's like a tomb With just a moth stained naked night Plastic forks and spoon No laces in my shoes They all know what I tried to do Outside the Quiet Room This quiet place It ain't so new to me It's haunted atmosphere Has heard so many scream My home from home My twilight zone My strangest dream My confidant I have confessed my life The Quiet Room Knows more about me than my wife They've got this place Where they've been keeping me Where I can't hurt myself I just can't I just can't get these damn wrists to bleed A mattress on the floor No handles on the door I really need nothing more I'm alone
Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 11, 2026
When I look back at my time at the track And I played and I played and I played and I was Shooting the craps at the back of Fat Jack's Come on fade me Jake I'm a Las Vegas dreamer they took to the cleaners A bath, what a bath, what a bath I'd take A fish on a hook I was rattled and shook 'cause I lost my stake I took that serious All of my life was a laugh and a joke And a drink and a smoke And then I passed out on the floor Again and again and again and again and again I'm a gambling fool with a roll and a cue Wanna play, wanna play, wanna play with me Put my ass on the line rubbed my nose in the grime And they picked me clean The chance and the game drove Old Silky insane What a pain what a strain on my brain it was A fish on a hook I was rattled and shook 'cause I lost my stake I took that serious All of my life was a laugh and a joke A drink and a smoke And then I passed out on the floor Again and again and again and again and again Serious, it was serious, oh so serious Serious, it was serious, oh so serious All of my life was a laugh and a joke A drink and a smoke And then I passed out on the floor (Or a friend) Again and again and again and again and again All of my life was a laugh and a joke A drink and a smoke And then I passed out on the floor (On the floor) Again and again and again and again and again and again And again and again and again and again and again And again and again
Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 11, 2026
I got my name and number I got my bed assigned I got a dog in the city pound That I left behind I'm strapped down and wild-eyed She's locked up in a pen She needs somebody to feed her And I'm her only friend So for Veronica's sake I gotta get out of here Yeah for Veronica's sake, she can get pretty weird Yeah for Veronica's sake I gotta get myself out of here We both been put in cages We got our shots and tags I got my sweatin' fist to shake She's got her tail to wag She has to bark and whimper While I could scream and shout The clock above the psycho ward Says time is running out So for Veronica's sake I gotta get out of here Yeah for Veronica's sake, she can get pretty weird Yeah for Veronica's sake I gotta get myself out of here And I can see her howling all night at the lonely moon They're going to give her the gas if I don't get there soon I gotta get there soon For Veronica's sake I gotta get out of here Yeah for Veronica's sake, she can get pretty weird
Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 11, 2026
From his army confessions of his military days You still carry the shrapnel you're shell-shocked and dazed Dear Johnny have you lost your way Or like denim and leather are you faded and frayed Institute lackies with hot bourbon breath White coats and needles Johnny like to scare you to death Dear Johnny do you feel your best When you're strung out at night on your morphine and meth Jackknife Johnny you're a floor moppin' flunkie Tool of a dagger's drawn world Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you For bringing home that V.C. girl Jackknife Johnny welcome to our world From the tone deaf hearing of the draft board game You were washing cars down in Dallas when the holocaust came Dear Johnny your excuse was lame All your friends sleep in boxes while you sleep in chains Jackknife Johnny you're a bad jungle monkey Tool of a dagger's drawn world Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you For bringing home that V.C. girl Jackknife Johnny welcome to our world Jackknife Johnny you're a floor moppin' flunkie Tool of a dagger's drawn world Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you For bringing home that V.C. girl Jackknife Johnny welcome to our world Jackknife Johnny you're a bad jungle monkey Tool of a dagger's drawn world Jackknife Johnny them old vets gotta hate you For bringing home that V.C. girl Jackknife Johnny
Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 11, 2026
It's not like we did something wrong We just burned down the church While the choir within sang religious songs And it's not like we thought we was right We just played with the wheels of a passenger train That cracked on the tracks one night It's not like we ain't on the ball We just talk to our shrinks Huh they talk to their shrinks No wonder we're up the wall And we're not stupid or dumb We're the lunatic fringe who rusted the hinge On Uncle Sam's daughters and sons Good old boys and girls Congregating waiting in another world With roller coaster brains Imagine playing with trains Good old boys and girls Congregating waiting in some other world We're all crazy we're all crazy we're all crazy Lizzy Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks... And don't think we're trying to be bad (No!) All the innocent crime seemed alright at the time Not necessarily mad (not necessarily mad) We watch every day for the bus And the driver would say "That's where lunatics stay" I wonder if he's talking about us It's not like we're vicious or gone We just dug up the graves where your relatives lay In old Forest Lawn And it's not like we don't know the score We're the fragile elite they dragged off the street I guess they just couldn't take us no more Good old boys and girls Congregating waiting in another world With roller coaster brains Imagine digging up graves Good old boys and girls Congregating waiting in some other world We're all crazy we're all crazy we're all crazy...
Submitted by NecroLord — Feb 11, 2026