It's funny

How you imagine

That everything suddenly went wrong

When really

It has been messed up for a while

Looking at old photos

Wishing you were happy again

Turn up the music a little

Maybe you'll drown it all out

It's never worked in the past

But there's a first time for everything

Listening to stories

That your dad tells

Over and over again

Tales of days past

Like when he dropped you as a baby

But caught you before you hit the ground

Or the day he brought you home

Turn up the music louder

Shuffle to an old song

One of those tunes

That is so tightly laced to your childhood

That it plays in the background

Of all your memories since you were six

Turn it up all the way

Make the world disappear

Find a home video of that one time

You called republicans `comedians` on accident

Laugh about it

For the millionth time

Then cry

Because even then

When you looked so happy

You were insecure

And scared out of your mjnd