“For having and voicing needs.”
Category: Altered States
Bucking Saddles
“Choosing any course of action requires tasks of followthrough, and I find that certain modes conscript central aspects of my core personality that are just too darn tired of getting pushed around and forced into workhorse drudgery.”
(Rain – Sleep Token, Lyric Video)
Entropy
‘Seems to constantly engage.”
They Say
“You’ve got to love yourself before you can love someone else.
But when you’ve already been doing so, this phrase is just a cop out.
There’s no real explanation why one continues to then be alone.
It’s just about making the best of it.”
I Don’t Feel Right
“And I’m not sure what it’s going to take to feel right.”
The Chop
“I keep dodging uppercuts – but it sucks when they’re swingin’!”
(Difficult To Love – Elderbrook, Nu Aspect Remix)
Underlying Truths
Reactionary Beings
“The mask struggles to not come off as my mind works it loose – and the pathway from brain to mouth natural instinct instant response is still compromised.”
(Maze Of Memories – Lynnic, ItsDarius, & Dinia)
It’s Pretty Funny
“Actually, none of this is pretty, nor funny, and just keeps tripping the cortisol.”
And Around We Go!
“A bill that had been granted a three week extension defaulted two weeks early, reactivating autowithdrawal without my permission, reoverdrafting my account – and now its and following overdraft charges for other normal small bills no longer covered by my before meager balance (sucked away by this bill) accumulate.
Weeeeee!”
Benefits Of Isolationism
“Nobody startles or jumps when I suddenly cry out in pain from an injured mistep.”
Help! Lol (Take It To The Limit – Eagles)
OMG – Nooooo!
“‘Seniors aged fifty-blah-blah-blah and higher…’ goes the commercial, showing ladies barely lifting their arms while doing slow dance moves in their gray-haired, osteoporosis late-staged retirement…
But, ‘I’m not dead, yet!'”
(Last quote is Monty Python)
(Dance Monkey – Elderbrook, Tones And I Cover, Live @ SiriusXM)
Elderbrook has such a classy groove style. Isn’t that a dancing monkey toy rhythm interwoven into this piece? Pure creative subtle genius.
Mystery Penalties
“It shouldn’t be this difficult to get the banks working smoothly.”
Psychological Load
“Sometimes, it’s just too much to try to overcome.”
(Time – The Alan Parsons Project)
Feck!
Mischief managed for the moment!
Maybe Unlikely
“Maybe if I didn’t try to keep growing and doing things, the disrupting chaos would not find me.
But, somehow, I find this unlikely.”
(Telephone Line – ELO)
“All The Way Up” Button
https://www.myinstants.com/en/instant/all-the-way-up-19525/
Artists: Fat Joe & Remy Ma
The Struggle
Things I must do
Vs.
Things I want to do
(Shut Up – Elderbrook, Black Eyed Peas, Hotel Room Sessions, Cabin Edition)
Hitting Reds
“As one account is borked, and others are blocked, emergencies blare as hit deadlines.”
(That’s What I Want – Lil Nas X)
Repost from Augus 2022
Being Alone
The nice, empty quiet of solitude, sucking at senses for attention while trying to be productive.
It’s Funny
“How I think rest will ease the pain, when all it does is clear fuzz from my brain and make acute awareness even greater.”
‘In-flu-enc-ers’
“What the -?!”
Fu**ery
“Having the bank accounts seized by factors beyond my control magnitudinally increases the difficulty of managing.”
(Give Me Anything – John Summit ft. Elderbrook)
Reset
“It takes awhile, and I wonder if it will come – but then alignment pulls me forward from my bed.”
Spun ‘Round
“I couldn’t have handled the upcoming week had I not given myself space – but the adrenal cortisol sudden hits now are more than I can take!”
(Cola – CamelPhat & Elderbrook, ZHU remix)
Here They Come
“Insurmountables which must be surmounted.”
(Summer Days – Beatrice Dupont & Ron Rivers)
“Let It Slide” (Song)
By Athena Stairs, April 12, 2025
Wouldn’t it be wonderful
If it weren’t all downhill
From here as they say
Except if it gets easier?
On a day like today
When I am so tired
I wonder that I ever had
Energy that conquered
The blues and overcame
Despite hardship’s blame
Haven’t felt so exhausted
That I can ever remember
Like a soft blanket covering
Giving safety or strangling?
I guess I just need to sleep
But insomnia keeps peeked
The part of me looking out
For awaited homecomings
And if I knew what was enough
Well, I would try to give all of it
And if my chance got back its luck
Well then, I would have to go for it
But it’s just been kids and me
A mixture of human and furry
Maybe this is the quiet that comes
Before the next storm sets tumbling
Any sense of balance that I have
Thought I should keep acquiring
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Contact me for permissions.
Drained
“Giving in therapy these days is taking a huge draw on reserves that are ghost remnants.”
Butterfly Wings
“Strong, yet delicate.”
(Closer To The Heart – Rush)
Repost from July 19, 2022
Done For The Night
“Super-fried Fricassee-frittered.”
Second Guessing
She felt “messed up” because what if he didn’t want her?
(Easy On Me – Adele)
Sleep Token Quote
“Stick to me…stick to me like caramel. Walk beside me, ’til you feel nothing, as well.
Falling free of the final parallel. The sweetest dreams are bitter when there’s no one left to tell.”
(From their latest song, “Caramel”)
Deprogramming
“If we can see the lies that have entrapped us, maybe we can figure a way around them.”
Fractured Trust
“We’ve been conditioned to believe that heartbreak and deceit are just the way life is.”
(If I Say – The Happy Hippy Death Cult)
Mind Fu**ery
“When caught repeatedly within embroiled inequities of one form to another, the real battle becomes the struggle to overcome imposed belief that one will never rise above.”
