Do No Right

I'm calling an intervention
Why? Cause you need one, why do you always get so defensive
Trying to help you lessen the pain from lessons I've gained
Hence this friendship I'm offering you, stopping you from ending
Your life; get me the knife that's in the guestroom
Better to fight this than end up dead soon
Dread in your life has you fed up, stressed you
Better to let it subside, don't let it upset you
When you're ready I'm willing to drive wherever you might feel best
Lose what's riddling your mind, let me get you some medicine
Why? If you deny, it might strive to collide and infect you
That's my advice… take it or leave it
But choose one or the other, don't play in between them
You making a scene? I'm taking my leave
You don't have to take my help, but don't blame it on me then.

Seems like you’re most content
When you’re talking to me
About how awful you feel
Well I can’t get used to that
So I’ll leave you with this
I can't be the man for that job
See you’re old enough
To know that love is hard work
So don’t take it for granted now
Why do you make me feel
Like I'm a fool
Like I can do...
Like I can do no right
Do no right

Now I get it's an affliction
A depression is a sickness
I have helped you, I have listened
And I would tell you if I could lift it
But requesting my time with your guilt trips
Isn't very fair to me now, is it?
It has only increased our distance no need for a visit
Now we're both helpless victims in this little prism
When I look in your eyes, lies they tell
A smile can disguise what we hide so well
Never been apart but I think it's smart for me to depart
'Cause my heart isn't a car to be parked in your dark life
We all have hard times but, keep 'em in your archives like the rest of us
Anger fear and hatred, no wonder you've been suffering
Running with the dark side at the bar side in exodus
Keep telling me I'm selfish, remind me I'm letting you down
I won't allow all your negative energy now
Breathe out…
Your next suicide threat text will be met with the sound
Of an automated helpline forwarded to you
Call it late and know that I'm over your abuse
You can't, force someone to love you
Don't know if you fully grasp that. Hopefully you do.

I have wrestled with clinical depression before
At best you're restless and bored playing chess on the board
With yourself in your head is a war waging, whomever wins loses
At worst, you're headed for heaven's door
Step in and you're met not with harps and chords from harpsichords
Darkness foreshadows the devil in hell that descends and tortures you
Forces you to confront your shadow self on a shore where you do battle
In a storm on a war horse you saddle
Even as a rat trapped in a cell, you flapped like a bat outta hell
And managed to be an energy vampire in the most padded of cells Draining me til madness prevails
Those almond shaped eyes that always break my barriers
So nefarious calling me late night
To carry you wherever you want ALL with a faint cry
Parrying your angst while I care for you but hey it's apparent that you say hello only when you're needing me to rescue you well I'm through with your blues...
And the same tales you'll be talking again
When help comes knocking you'll pretend
You're not home; take refuge under-the-covers and not go
Knowing you're sick refusing the hospital
'Cause who's gonna walk you home at the day's end
When the night crooks took the playpen from your childhood you were safe in
And then time took all the pages from your life's book you were saving…|
I wish you all the best… hope you manage to manifest the improbable
But whatever your fate is, I will not be held responsible.