Tricky Vices

Are we skipping rocks across the pond to watch them jump or are we getting rid of the rock?

You pray for vengeance

But vengeance is like a candle

A flickering flame, seemingly containable

But what control do we really have?

It dances to its own beat

One tiny misstep and your whole world is on fire

You still light the flame though

You still tend to the fire and hope it doesn’t turn against you

Maybe that’s really just what you want though

A secret forbidden desire

A cataclysmic cost that changes everything

You seek it like a thrill

Dreading your everyday life and instead finding all glory and joy in that blaze

What a crystal vision

And crystal it is, so fragile if it breaks

And the world comes crumbling behind it

You still give in though

Why shouldn’t you?

Everyone has a vice.

Everyone feels that peculiar stamping in the back of their mind

Calling out now, isn’t it?

It’s so swift and divine or so it says to be.

You don’t really know it or understand it at all.

Sweet and pure, so tasteful, so luxurious

Your appetite is aroused

And nothing can tame that craving but the taste of the passion itself

Go ahead, take a bite, I won't tell.

Figures, huh?

What right do I have to tell your secret?

I’ve got it too

That craving, that urge

So dark and venomous, so alluring

I wave around my white flag and shout for peace and love

But on the inside, oh what a sick, twisted animal

Rocking back and forth steadily in my cage

Closed in for far too long and far too hungry to control my urges anymore

Let me out, please!

Let me out!

Don’t deny that vision

Don't think about what you’ll lose

Consequences are invalid.

Listen to me, the pleasure will be so great you won't care what comes next.

Honestly, you never did

That's why you’re so sick and weak all the time

You need me!

I’ll make you stronger. I’ll heal you.

Open up and together we’re unstoppable.

We dive deep into the satisfactory glands of pleasure

It will be monumental

And people will wonder and gape in horror and shock

In horror and curiosity...

See now we’ve drawn them in because of what we’ve done

Because you and I were strong enough to release the beast and give in

Now they want to know too

Sure on the outside they are sickened at the sight

“How could you”, they’ll exclaim

But please, look at them really

They’re salivating

They wish they had taken the leap

They want the experience

They can’t believe someone finally did what was on their dirty mind all along

Oh but they’ll judge anyway

And wag their plump finger at you

Its all for the public, of course

Shame!

But don’t you regret it

Sure the moments over and that sweet delicious rush ended with grief

But come on, look what we did

Look what we started

We sparked something, you know

It's contagious

I’ll bet they’re going to be dancing around that cage this time tomorrow

Drawn closer and closer with every twirl

They’re just ripping themselves apart within to open it.

And when they do, you're going to feel it too

Back in your cage all alone you’re going to hear a distant door swing open

And a wild beast ram its body through the frame and bust out into the world

Maybe no one will notice

But those beasts usually get caught

And you’ll smile and recall the feeling when you first broke free

So nasty and sinister they all said

But come on, they never say that when they break free.

Everyone has a vice.

And we all have the key to the cage.

What are you going to do with it?