Quantity Time

Yet another sluggard hour stumbles past
It's no wonder life looks better through the bottom of a glass
These bitter litanies you keep repeating
Are verbal fingers down my mental blackboard screeching

Each moment in your company
Was of more quantity than quality
My hopes and dreams - transparent phantoms
This wayward son's irrational anthems

Not worth spending quantity time
Life is hunger - life is pain
Never ending quantity time
Toe the line - take the strain
Awake in bad in quantity time
Hate to say I told you so
Long time dead in quantity time
Next stop hell - not far to go

My vision is obscured - blurred by tears of anger
These four walls a prison where I rot in stagnant languor
My broken heart screams out "someone repair me" -
Or please lay me in the cemetery

'Cause you've taken all that's best, you see
So I'll lay to rest the rest of me
You cannot hold a dream to ransom -
Or silence my irrational anthem

Not worth spending quantity time
Life is hunger - life is pain
Never ending quantity time
Toe the line - take the strain
Awake in bad in quantity time
Hate to say I told you so
Long time dead in quantity time
Next stop hell - not far to go