My friends and I tend to be mad Something had in common to be glad To be mad who glad they are too Say if you are mad maybe you Maybe we may be mad together The question why not but not whether Glad to be mad and not sad I had never fit in within Without but my way out was in Where I fell through the cracks to find Another way there by other mind Another day of otherwhat That is what is but it is not Is otherwise as I ought to know Falling all the way to see it through Otherwise the way I do What is that is but it is not Is otherwise as otherwhat I fell then all the way to now Where as then was when so now is how And why as I learned the hard way How it turned out to be somehow To be freeing me to be being The rest now then seeing the best way For me to be anyway Finding some on the other side Likeminded like you for the ride Because I am mad I can see What had made me sad not being me Not being what I meant and so I went and I was glad to go Knowing going mad as going free How in the way out now I may be Maybe be glad to be mad Another way of otherwhat That is what otherwise is not Steven Curtis Lance