In My Room I Now Preside
By John S. Twery
In my room I now preside
While I watch time pass me by
I dream of parties with my peers
Doing drugs and drinking beers
I am stuck here weekend all
For my conflict with the law
I just want to drive my ride
But now I can't cause my rights denied
My life right now feels like hell
And my room becomes a cell
For the crime that I've commit
My life right now feels like shit
Just because we walked right in
With some flashlights and some friends
While inside we heard 5-0
What to do I did not know
So we ran to my car
Cop behind us not to far
In my car I stepped on the gas
But the cop still on my ass
With lights on, pulled me behind
But in my car I could not hide
The cop asked me what I knew
I told him that my name was Stu
As I pulled up to my house
I thought what to tell my father's spouse
After telling them the facts
My parents read me the riot acts
Since my actions brought me here
I am found just craving beer
In my room I now preside
While I watch time pass me by
June '99, I walked from Glass
Off to Radford to smoke some grass
I hanged some lights and was Britney Spears
Partied hard with punks and queers
Radford made my mind a bend
Back at home my mind must mend
Lets not forget those summers past
A plate glass window and my bare ass
A rubber room the path for Stu
A circle of crazies looking for clues
With my mind a bit less than best
The search for me started going out west
Montana for me was Dante's 8
Cold as hell but the beer was great
Made some friends and that was cool
But with the girls I was the fool
Got all the signals to get some ass
But not enough booze were in their glass
I packed my bags towards the 'burg
Still my feelings in Dante's Purg
A long trip it was to home from School
Unpacked my bags to go work the pool.
Familiar faces of girls and boys
In the land of misfit toys
So I'm in my room jobless and broke
Sometimes thinking life's a joke
What have I done all this time?
Piss and moan and even whine?
Does life suck and then you die?
Well fuck that shit is what I cry
Rebuilding life, no easy test
I'm stead and fast, still on my quest
No direction in mind to go
And my destination not I know
Demons haunt from time to time
And can throw me from my prime
What's in store I try not ask
Moving on with well formed mask
I'm not sure I'll get there soon
But keep on walking toward the moon
But my writing will not cease
For in my words I find my peace
In my room I now preside
While I watch time past me by
I dream of jobs in the near
No more sitting on my rear
No degree is in my hand
A bit too late to start a band
Time to find a simple niche
And grab myself a silly bitch
I'll scratch by and earn my keep
When I'm done I'll go to sleep
I am one with heart on sleeve
On laundry day I tend to grieve
I've washed my shirt a thousand times
Not always fixed with simple rhymes
That bloody night came to cease
In failed attempt for eternal peace
For those times my tongue I bite
Many friends I lost that night
Scares cover up the shattered piece
And do remind of acid feast
Running away can get you far
But no more closer than where you are
But if the world turns into hell
And each room another cell
Keep on looking for the key
And please don't choose, "or not to be"
Quick can change come to a life
Bachelors run errands for their wife
Success does not reach those in bed
Just like words that none have read
In my room I now preside
While I watch time pass me by
Running away if not I try