One of a few tracks I've been working on. Feels good to be writing again after many years.
Lyrics:
When I was fifteen
I wanted to kill myself
I sat on the tracks
and waited for a train to come

Just like that Smoking Popes song
even my death is just a reference
to something else

Maybe the reason I'm still looking for myself
Is there's nothing to find

Take a pill
Now take another
do you feel better yet?

Write this down
And save for later
Don't you dare forget

You trace over your scars in permanent ink
Tell yourself it's fine, you're fine
You don't feel anything
And turn it into something you can sing

Make yourself useful

This will all be worth it
Tell yourself this will all be worth it
Someday

Then write another line
About your scars again
Tell yourself
This isn't all you are
Look in the mirror
Do you still believe that at all?

Tied myself to those train tracks
20 years ago
And I never got back up
It's like I'm still there now

Waiting for someone to take my hand
And tell me it's okay
To be

Make Yourself Useful - Demo

I write songs and I hope that people like them. What else could there even be?

Make Yourself Useful - Demo

Joe Krupinsky