all mad here

goodbye dinah,

goodbye

i'm going to a place where

you can't follow,

falling in reverse down this

madness hollow

and these roots look a lot

like the veins in my skin

one more shot in the arm

makes my world start to spin

hello dinah,

hello?

i'm lost in a meadow of

poisonous thorns,

mocked by the petals in

flowery scorn

and their pollen is stale

like the lines i inhale, i'm

a bump shrunk too small

as my flesh starts to pale, it's

cold dinah,

cold

i'm chasing a cat with a

grisly grin,

we're all mad, he says,

we're all made of sin

and the pills on my tongue

disappear with his guise

but the mome raths outgrabe

cut me back down to size, i'm

alone dinah,

alone

with the hatter and hare

and their

spirituous brew,

heed the door mouse’ beware

and this tea tastes a lot

like the sorrow i feel

one more pot down the hatch

turns my whole world surreal, i'm

trapped dinah,

trapped

in the red queen's rose court

with her

merciless games,

calling torture a sport

and the drugs numb my soul

but i'd rather be dead

if i don't play her way then

it's off with my head, so

goodbye dinah,

goodbye

i'm going to a place where

you can't follow,

falling in reverse down this

madness hollow

the light leaves my eyes

with my lung's last expand, and

we're all mad here

in this dark wonderland.

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