Peer Review

Atlanta bus station, I'll do my best to paint a picture

It's women who spit when they smoke

It's men who ask to borrow your phone

There's a young guy, he's wearing no shoes

There's an old lady who's partially nude

Everyone mutters, and everyone yells

It's a shit-dipped concrete annex of hell

I'm tasting the smells and chewing the sounds

I wait for my bus, but I'm wondering how

I find myself here at home with misfits

When I'm so supposed so much better than this shit

Eye to eye with people I've judged

I can't reach my perch from this place in the mud

Shoulder to shoulder with total scum

Can't they see I'm nothing like them?

Lifeboat we're in is starting to sink

My high horse seems to be adding the weight

A sense of entitlement lodged in my mind

But if they're here and I'm here, then who the fuck am I?

A prison visiting room, I'll do my best to paint a picture

Killers they whisper, traffickers cough

It's a dim grey limbo God forgot

I'm tasting the smells, and I'm chewing the sounds

I'm here for my dad, but I'm wondering how

He finds himself here at home with convicts

When he's supposed to be so much better than this shit

Eye to eye with people I've judged

I can't reach my perch from this place in the mud

Shoulder to shoulder with total scum

Can't they see I'm nothing like them?

Lifeboat we're in is starting to sink

My high horse is just adding weight

Entitled attitude lodged in my mind

But if they're here and I'm here, then who the fuck am I?

You can't feel superior to people you're in it with

These are your peers, and you just gotta deal with it

These are your peers, man, you just gotta deal with it

Too much time inside your own head, you lost sight of what it is