Living for Love or Dying Trying The news is so sad as to be sadistic To be addicted to it feels bad To me not being at all masochistic This is a bad time for being mad Though reality was confusing before What seems unreality is more As if this were a reality TV Show I know is confusing to me Already confused but refusing to be Part of this stupid reality It could be I had to go mad to transcend To see this madness through to the end As crazy outside of my head now I guess As in is how it is more or less I look on with horror but see I am not Hallucinating that this is what Is hurrying to happen and I worry Stupefied as the stupid scurry The news in the morning is cruel and sad Warning of a habit going bad But I know what is and it is love I know Even though I am mad even so I know who I am and I know how to do What I do now that I am glad to By taking the madness outside of my head Inside and making it rhyme instead Of succumbing to the numbing of the dread Stupefying talking heads lying Talking the living in fear into dying Out of my head as they spread despair Living for love or dying trying In sad times may mad rhymes spread love everywhere Steven Curtis Lance