Scum Grief

I try to please them with my way most every day
I try to please you while I'm here wasting away
I'll promise you a world so wide, love
Replace my lies in time with truth, love

Access to exits everywhere far and away
Blueprints of passageways lest I need an escape
I need a way out of my life, love
Some hidden path we take in stride, love

I'm always full of "woe is me" and I'm ashamed
Don't want to spend my days as some Hippocratic slave
My field of vision's blurred and blind, love
My drinks are always running dry, love

Cautious and apathetic, brutal and in blame
My life's a straw house in the wake of hurricanes
Pray you don't upset me or mine, love
Don't pity vague and petty minds, love

Call me pathetic, call me a bore
You don't even take the time to call me anymore
So tired and tragic, squalid and vain
Sometimes I swear I don't even remember my name