Shane Koyczan - Troll lyrics

Once upon a time, you and all your kind
Lived underneath bridges
Had ridges for ribs that dropped
Off into empty chests
As if your Hearts were all stolen treasures
As if an excavation crew were
Hired to dig up and
Remove the part Of you that let you feel
And while the world above you invented
The wheel, you stayed put
Knowing it would one day need
To roll over top
Of you to get to Where it's going
You had an endlessly flowing
Supply line of food
You began to brood over humanity and
Made meals of our hope
As if crushing our spirit's
Would make your mirrors
Cast better Reflections than the
Ones they gave, as if the only way you could


Save yourselves was to make the
World Ugly so no one would
Notice you hiding in it
You learned to knit pain into
A kind of camouflage
Treated hope like a mirage that you could
Use to lure in your next meal
You lived off of our fears
As if you could taste what we feel
And every night
As the moon read bedtime stories to sunlight
You took darkness as an invite to
Head out into the world
You curled your hands into wrecking balls
Your
Breath became Squalls, you made rocks rumble
You made land shiver
You made boys and girls pray that
Someone would deliver them From you
We told them you aren't real
Then one day, the world changed
But you all stayed the same
Just migrated from living underneath bridges
To living underneath
Information super-highways
Days and nights became meaningless
Each already deepened Chest became
An abyss that no
One would ever find the bottom of
Concepts like love fell into your gravity
We turned ourselves into
Live preservers, hoping to save as
Many as we could, but the fathers who stood
Guarding closet doors and
The mothers Who secured the
Floors underneath beds
All shook their heads not knowing
How to deal with you you, who crept into our
Lives with tongues like
Knives stabbing your Words into our skin
You began to begin uploading
Yourselves into our
Homes you had Computer screens for eyes
And software for bones
You turned your hate into stones
And hurled them at beauty
As if you couldn't bear to
See anything other than ugly
Anything Different
You had fingernails like flint
And scraped them along decency
Hoping we would
Be the ones to all catch fire
You all had smiles like one-way barbed wire
Not meant to keep us Out
Meant to keep us in voice like a firing pin
You spoke in explosions
It isn't cute it isn't funny
You've talked strangers into death
And laughed
And as each family learns to graft skin
Over the wounds you gave them
You hem yourselves into the scar
You have coaxed the sober back into bars
Handed out cigars at memorials
Offered nooses, cliffs
And pills to those who unfortunately found
You before they found help
You have praised suffering
Waltzed in between tragedies
Gracefully dipping misery as if
We would somehow be
Impressed With the dexterity
Of your animosity you have cheered on rape
Dashed through police tape as if
It were The finish line
In a race of who can be awful first
Even now
You somehow see this as an invitation
To turn your keyboards into Catapults
Wondering which of you can be the
First to hate this best
Your loathing, already dressed in riot gear
Ready to incite rage
As if each message board is a stage
Where you recite hostility
Turning freedom of speech into
Freedom of cruelty we are stuck with you
The same way you are stuck with you
Your mind is glue
And it keeps malice fastened
There like cheap Wallpaper
We were once upon a time told
That none of you exist
We Dismissed you as make believe or myth
Now armed only with resolve
We can no longer afford to tell
Ourselves that you aren't real
We will not let you make your dinners
Out of the things we feel