That's really well expressed.  My opinion is that of someone that was inculcated from birth.

I was religiously sucidal, and suicidally religious for over thirty years as a result.

Your lyrics express a very profound sentiment that is easily understood by me, and others like me that have had similar experiences.

Thank you for sharing.

Also, thank you to the moderators that disagree with the sentiment for recognizing the value of others contrary versions of their truth.

Thank you, it's always informative to know what captures others folks emotions.  It often clarifies my own.

Thank you.

I scribbled it down within about ten minutes.

What do you identify with in the song?

Thanks for the response.

I'm curious, in what context that you find it's still a part of your life.

This particular poem/unfinished song came out of a neighbor that is dealing with being insanely jealous of our relationship with another set of neighbors.

The person ranted and raved on my front porch, yard, and in the house before I finally used an epithet to describe my feelings about them, at which point they resorted to threats of violence.

This is after seven years of building a friendship with the angry person and their family.

I stay grateful for my own problems every day.

Remember the song Yakkety-Yak  (Don't Talk Back)?

I'm singing it around that speed.  I'm getting my buddy, (pro musician) to show me bluegrass roll-offs on the guitar.

So far, whenever I'm jammin' out solo, I just keep a rhythm kinda' like Yakkety-Yak (Don't Talk Back), singing with a bluegrass feel.

The second time through I sing the first stanza in double-time up against the same type strumming on the guitar that I've been playing all along; just double-time without a breath between the phrases.

When I get video and/or a sound recording with my friend, I'll post it up for all to see.

In the meantime, if you, or anyone else would like to contribute verses or an additional chorus, I'd find it quite enjoyable to work in that type of a collaborative manner.

Thank-you.

I've put it up in songwriting now, with chords.

That's my new favorite non-Monty Python, Monty Python urgent news bulletin...

...it's always interesting to post here...

One of my favorite Dylan tunes...

Cry Awhile - Bob Dylan

Love the lyrics... "A nasty, dirty, double-crossin', back-stabbin' phony I didn't wanna have to wanna deal with..."

and I like his tempo changes in this piece as well...

...yeah, you know I get the same feeling whenever I listen to the majority of the "news" channels on the television...

Thesaurus... you talking about some kinda' dinosaur... I ain't got no terrible lizards running around here... aaargh.... help, the thesaurus has got my leg...

help, somebody, please...