Loco Motives

I'm just a graffiti covered train car

Wearing all the somethings

Someone had to say

You're a willing passenger taking blame hard

For how far & often I veer off

And it's just like me to go & blow it

With trains of thought

Conducting loco motives

I'm not proud of how I lash out

Upon arrival at the last

Outpost of my mind

You've been around for every whistle-stop black out

You hold firm at your station

And take it in stride

But you're growing tired of being railroaded

By trains of thought

Conducting loco motives

Call the doctor

Take their pills

Panic at the sushi place

The deal you've drawn

Is as raw as the

Fish on our plates

And it's just like me to go & blow it

With trains of thought

Conducting loco motives

If I keep

Blindly bumping

Through this thing called life

Scared I'll die

The little engine

That could never quite