High Encounter

Time goes by ever so slowly when I'm high....
The life behind the curtain has ceased to be.
Blackness has filled the doorways of tomorrow,
When I'm high it's the only way that I feel free.

Pain has drained away and the effect is my pleasure,
Leaving the lantern unlit for the moment I'm dormant
My delirium clouds the reality that has been rewritten,
The needle pulls me in to put an ending to my torment.

"I won't be the one who'll let you down" is what they'd say,
Everybody has their promises and everyone has their lies,
Friends become enemy's and the family tree gets cut down
The only thing that I can count on is the drugs to get me high,

You can stand up and take a toast and I can take another dose,
To celebrate life that has been dead to me for as long as forever,
There's a factor that I favor that forfeits the wagers encountered,
For my drugs are the sacrifices traded and the high is the treasure.