Fractured

[shadowknows69]

Feeling fractured,
Life in tatters,
Like nothing else matters.

World getting me down,
Giving me the runaround
Driving my hopes into the ground

Stop. What's that sound?

Progress marching to the rich man's beat
While I'm shuffling my feet
Trying to get by; a roof, some meat.

Broken roads and empty streets

My path has been shattered
Crazy as the mad hatter
Sitting here getting fatter.

Nowhere to go but death's door
The beast says, "come on bring me some more"
You never were rich, but you'll surely die poor.

Body aching and mind about to snap
Time that's gone can't be taken back
How did a smart guy like me fall into this trap?

Like iron teeth around my legs.

Breaking my bones
Not feeding my jones
Trying to fracture my home.
S

[lonestarnot]

1. Pick up the pieces S69.

Live one way live another. I feel your pain, and on some days, it feels like you wrote this just for me.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Puts me to mind of --

Shattered, shattered
Love and hope and sex and dreams
Are still surviving on the street
Look at me, Im in tatters!
Im a shattered
Shattered

Friends are so alarming
My lovers never charming
Lifes just a cocktail party on the street
Big apple
People dressed in plastic bags
Directing traffic
Some kind of fashion
Shattered

Laughter, joy, and loneliness and sex and sex and sex and sex
Look at me, Im in tatters
Im a shattered
Shattered

All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter bout
Shmatta, shmatta, shmatta -- I cant give it away on 7th avenue
This towns been wearing tatters (shattered, shattered)
Work and work for love and sex
Aint you hungry for success, success, success, success
Does it matter? (shattered) does it matter?
Im shattered.
Shattered

Ahhh, look at me, Im a shattered
Im a shattered
Look at me- Im a shattered, yeah

Pride and joy and greed and sex
Thats what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street
And look at me, Im in tatters, yeah
Ive been battered, what does it matter
Does it matter, uh-huh
Does it matter, uh-huh, Im a shattered

Dont you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
You got rats on the west side
Bed bugs uptown
What a mess this towns in tatters Ive been shattered
My brains been battered, splattered all over manhattan

Uh-huh, this towns full of money grabbers
Go ahead, bite the big apple, dont mind the maggots, huh
Shadoobie, my brains been battered
My friends they come around they
Flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter, flatter
Pile it up, pile it high on the platter

[shadowknows69]

4. Being that I'm a huge Stones fan I can't say that wasn't an inspiration

But I don't think I plagiarized too badly.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. from one Stones fan to another

:hug:

:headbang:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

3. With you Holmes.

That's brilliant :hug: :yourock: :toast:

[shadowknows69]

5. Praise indeed coming from you my friend

I don't think about them as much as they just spill out occasionally.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. kicking for shadowknows!

:yourock:

Witcha bad self :)