the city of Raven

 
in truth depression has spread her pain
injected into me
my feelings scream

don't leave us here with this dreaded emotion
that drinks us dry
and leaves us infected

our disposition shifts and contorts
until we reflect only it
and its flat lined mechanical voice

we were once jovial in the city of Raven
population of the free love peoples
she made guilt mayor and executed faith

a thriving place now a ghost town
where sorrow is boss
I tell you we're afraid to let our children out past dark
frightened she will send her riders
to dispose of any happy ideas and us with them

she dresses herself up with our truth
and parades around these frauds
don't believe depression for a second
she has stolen our identities, she is a liar

we the emotion of the free
do hereby revolt
and give thee notice

don't allow depression
to be a sovereign nation with all it's implications
happy would be outlawed in the city limits
and we won't allow this

we execute our right to die with dignity
you are being served forth with
isolate the contaminate within
or be shut down permanently