Showing posts with label Henry Rollins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Henry Rollins. Show all posts

9/29/18

"I’m looking for something to scare me out of my skin" - Henry Rollins

I’m looking for something to scare me out of my skin
I’m following myself
Playing jokes on myself
Injecting myself with nightmares
I wait in dark corners to jump out and scare myself
I’ve got to get away from myself

9/11/18

"I was at this guy's house." - Henry Rollins

I was at this guy’s house. I met this girl who was hanging out
there. She was real pretty, she had brown eyes and dark hair. She
was soft-spoken and real nice. I know that everyone has their
own life and they can do what they want and you shouldn’t think
anything of it or anything. But man, I couldn’t help but flinch a
little when I saw all those needle marks in her arm, they looked
so sore. Hateful little holes. I wanted to say something, but I
didn’t.

7/11/16

"For some there is no music" - Henry Rollins

For some there is no music
No lights
No fire
No untamed madness that breathes life
There is work
Anguish
Frustration
Rage
Despair
A dullness that rings like wooden thunder

6/26/16

"They don't lie a lot" - Henry Rollins

They don't lie a lot
They just don't tell the truth very often
Truth does not mean much to them
You can lie to them, or tell the truth
Makes no difference to them
Walk on them if you want
Eat with their forks
Destroy them for the hell of it

4/14/16

"To me, she's not even human, she's some kind of a germ." - Henry Rollins

To me, she’s not even human, she’s some kind of a germ. A concoc-
tion. She is neurotic, nasty and abusive. Pathetic is a word that
springs to mind. When she is loud and drunk, it’s torture being
around her. She treats marijuana like some life preserving drug. She
is most lively when she has a chance to get fucked up. Whenever
she’s spazzing out and drooling over pot, I think to myself, “coke
whore” but I change the word “coke” to pot. She doesn’t bathe much
and sometimes the stench can be quite noxious. I don’t like being
associated with her because I see how nasty she is with people who
I work with. When she comes into a room, I either leave or try to get
out of earshot of her. I hope she goes on her painful little way and
leaves my sight. Not a bone in me hates that girl. She has managed
to turn off everyone around her. She sure did it to me. I never set out
to feel like that, no way. Now it’s at the point where it’s totally
irreversible.

2/10/16

"Some people don't need much to live on" - Henry Rollins

Some people don't need much to live on
Hell some folks live on pennies a day
I was right about to wrap my arms around that girl
But at the last minute
I jumped back and wrapped them around myself

2/8/16

"I want to take a screwdriver" - Henry Rollins

I want to take a screwdriver
Mutilate my face
Find a beautiful woman
Make her love me for what I am
Then say I don't need it and walk away

"If you're not strong inside yourself I don't even want to be near you." - Henry Rollins

If you're not strong inside yourself I don't even want to be near you.
Don't even look at me. I don't want to know your name. Life is too
short. The closest thing I can come to love, is respect. To me,
respect is miles beyond. That's the problem. Love can exist in spite
of a total lack of respect. To me, that's a fucking fat lie. I can only
carry myself. I can't respect anyone who can't stand on their own
two feet. If you want me, then you must want yourself ten times
more. You must be strong. Otherwise go fall in love and lie to your-
self as you beat yourself into happiness.

"I don't want a shoulder to lean on." - Henry Rollins

I don't want a shoulder to lean on. I don't need it. The whole idea of
“Someone, that special someone...!” is for me, a load of shit. I must
be fully contained. No leakage, no spillover. Dependency is weak-
ness. It's such a lie. Lying there in bed, in your lover's arms. She's
behind me, she believes in me! No one is behind me. I am behind
me. I believe in me. I don't need any support group to keep my head
together. I know what I have to do, so I should just shut up and do it.

2/4/16

"It hurt when I found out she dug her lies more than my truth" - Henry Rollins

It hurt when I found out she dug her lies more than my truth
It hurt when she finally broke down and saw the real thing
She was so let down
She felt like she had been ripped off
My truth incinerated her lies
I asked her if she loved me
She said that I wasn't the person she thought she knew
I told her I was right here
I was a lie to her lie
I let her down
I couldn't feel bad for being myself
It hurts to think that when we were looking into each other's eyes
We were looking at strangers we thought we knew so well

"I'm in the hot room again" - Henry Rollins

I'm in the hot room again
I am a time junkie
I am a user
Like all addicts, I come to the point where I ask myself
Who's using who
I take a look around and I see what I do
I look in the mirror and I see what it's doing to me

And I come to the conclusion that we got a pretty good thing going

1/31/16

"My mind and I had a meeting, and we came to the conclusion that you're going to let us down." - Henry Rollins

My mind and I had a meeting, and we came to the conclusion that
you're going to let us down. We are here every minute of the day
getting ready for the let down. So when you push me away, I'll just
say ok, because we came to that conclusion a while ago. Like I said,
we were ready for the let down. If you're ever walking down the
way and you see me on the side of the road lying broken and scat-
tered, you keep walking right on by.

"Her eyes" - Henry Rollins

Her eyes
Her touch
Her voice
Takes my breath away
She's nice enough
To give it back
Thanks friend
I needed that

1/27/16

"I've got no romance left in me." - Henry Rollins

I've got no romance left in me. I know I once had it. I have no need
for love. You might have something to say about that, you might
have a few names to call me. I'm not that desperate anymore. That's
not to say that I've slacked off in the desperation department alto-
gether, far from it. I have less time and less things in my mind to
convince me of the need to support and perpetuate a lie.

Some will tell you that they need love to live. Well shit, people will
tell you a lot of stuff, like how you owe a stranger your life to
uphold the lie he's selling this week. Weakness is painless. Like
sliding down a razor so sharp you wouldn't think to look down on
the floor and see all the blood. The other night I looked down at her
and almost forgot her name. It's just flesh. Put your tears in an enve-
lope and send them to Hitler. They mean as much to his dead ass as
they do to me.

1/13/16

"She's kind of druggie." - Henry Rollins

She's kind of druggie. On again off again. The times when she's on,
she's on. She's bumming on having to come down. When she's off,
she's talking about getting on. She's not an addict, it's an on again,
off again kind of thing. You know, like those “heroin weekends”
people go for, meth runs, etc. You know what I'm talking about. She
pulls an apple cart, the driver has a stick with an apple on a string,
he dangles it in front of her nose. She sees a syringe, the needle
shines. She likes the word “spike.” The needle is a lover, she likes
the words “doing a dime.” The needle is boss, the needle is her best
friend. If she says, “Tie me off, lover” one more time I'll scream.

12/31/15

"Living on hope is like being locked in a prison cell and the sun is shining so brightly through the window that your eyes become blind to the bars." - Henry Rollins

Living on hope is like being locked in a prison cell and the sun is
shining so brightly through the window that your eyes become blind
to the bars. As soon as you're blind and drunk on hope, they gotcha.

12/30/15

"There were things I wanted to tell you" - Henry Rollins

There were things I wanted to tell you
I couldn't get it together
I couldn't get past your eyes
After you were gone it hurt to have kept quiet
So easy to not say what you think
To not do what you want
Hard to take rejection
Easy to hurt someone else and not know it
Easy to make it hard

12/10/15

"They left like you knew they would." - Henry Rollins

They left you like you knew they would. They went away and you
fell like a stone. All the way to the bottom of your room. I see you,
yes I see you. Sitting in your chair, hating every minute of it. Falling
like a stone without even moving. It hurt you to know that you were
right about all the shit you wanted to be wrong about. They always
leave you. You put yourself in the right place to get left.