Sage Francis - I Keep Calling lyrics

Pick up, Pick uppick up, Pick up

Now I can't even think back self-induced
Amnesia has made it's impact
Mental health produced at leisure was
Frayed once it was intact
I voluntarily refuse to remenisce
If I could choose any
Wishi'd lose my genesis
And prove to my nemesis that I don't
Need Memory Lane on my way home
But I got lost and I needed a pay phone
Because I was in an unsafe
Zoneinside of a place unknown
Where unfamilliar faces roam
(and it's so strange)
I've got no changei could've sworn that
I did when I left
My breath gets heavy with every lie and theft
I looked right and leftthen I called
People at my home collect to tell them


"Things changed" But they
Just won't accept
I'm out of rangewith no respect every
Time I asked for directions
All I got was dead air, cut lines
And bad connections
People who would help changed
Their number to unlisted
411 info left me unassisted wickedly twisted
Incidents is it coincidence? I
Choose to think so deep in thought
My eyes blink slow pictures
Appear like slide shows
My mind knows each and every single detail
Total recall is leaving me pale
Sick to my stomachnautiousforces of nature
Bring my homing instinct
Its stinkis so distinctnow let
Me thinka minute
Epiphany: This is the much traveled
Trail from my past
Now an unbeaten pathunfunny memories are
Now making me laugh

Haaaaaa! The flashbacks of my
Past acts are numerous
Since out the uterusearth encounters
Ain't been that humerous
Hehehehehmy laugh lines have been faked
For the last time
I'm past my prime climaxing again
Is a task of mine
I'm homeward bound break out
The map and atlas
I ask gas station attendantsand
They just act pissed
I'm black listedfor not staying
True to white lies
I fight liesin darknessheartlessuntil
The night dies
Then I shed some light on what's the matter
Reflections in the looking glass
Self scatter when
The hard stares make it shatter
7 years bad luck? Time's irrelevant
I'm searching for signs
Of intelligent minds, but find the element
Which blinds what the hell I
Think now I'm thinking
"What time is it?" I see
The 12: 00 blinking
Check the positionof the sunto
See there is none
I figure there's an eclipseso I look
Away to save my wisdom
The solar system left me
Stranded in a universe
Where I do reverse psychology apologies
Are made through my verse
Ain't nothing to do but
Curse when I'm frustrated
Making people disgusted plus
I'm mistrusted and hated
That's an understatement
But who really cares about my failure years?
I'm on an expeditionfollowing my
Trail of tears from when I cried
Butit dried upand vaporized
I played your game
So where's my consalation prize?
I'm taking lies
From faking guysand galswho want to
Be my palsand peers at this here pace
It'll take me a thousand years
To fins my way backencompassing
What they lack it cost me most of my life
But still I'm thinking about a pay back
Decapitatedi lost my head
And fear is activated
I'm in a fog my blood
Sweat and tears evaporated
I back track to find my
Lost sense of direction stop, look
And listenbefore I cross the intersection
There's much construction i'm signaled
With morse code
To take a detour somehow I end
Up on an off road i squint my eyestrying to
Find some street signs
I can only read strong thoughts
These people have weak minds
Trapped in a desert that to
Me looks like a sandbox
With damn NARCShold up
Soni'm noticing some landmarks
I rack my brainknowing that I
Can't attack in vane
Upon return I promised myself not
To act the same
But every so often my selective
Screen memorywill be my enemy
Metamorphasize and say, "Remember me?"
Getting me petrowish I could kill the retro
But heck noto much of my past
I just can't let go
I'm just a stone's throw away from my
Home turfwhich really is this whole earth
But claims like that have no worth
Epiphany: And then it hit's methe
Reason why I'm dizzy
Is because I've been traveling in
Circles keeping myself busy (Where is he?)

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