Opera Oblivia

Breathe, be still, be free I was too lost in the way that others perceive me To remember that being oneself, is supposed to be easy So it resulted in embarrassment mostly Socially uncomfortable, verbally clumsy It’s a young man’s farce, slowly, but by and large Everything would change with the rain in Bang Saray We are born and raised as cattle to be the same But we are not the same, we have to change And if we don’t, we’ll suffocate Won’t we? The world has changed I awaited poise and autonomy Assured that it would come to me - a matter of chronology And I guess, looking back on those years I didn’t know what was wrong with me Go on and let yourself bruise We all need to learn how to lose We are born and raised as cattle to be the same But we are not the same, we have to change And if we don’t, we’ll suffocate Won't we? You’re not angry cause you’re not listening We are not the same, we have to change And if we don’t, we’ll suffocate Don’t wait One never reaches home until kind paths intersect And then the whole entire world will change itself to look like them For every altruistic, solicitous man and woman that I've met It was my distinct pleasure to have met you and to have shaken your hand You will never be forgotten You’re each part of who I am Your kindness Mother, won’t you forgive me? And Father, won’t you listen to me? And Brother, can’t you hear the sound? The march of time draws closer now We are born and raised as cattle to be the same But we are not the same, we have to change And if we don’t, we’ll suffocate Won't we? You’re not angry cause you’re not listening We are not the same, we have to change And if we don’t, we’ll suffocate Don’t wait

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026

So if I’ve got your contempt, then know you’ve got mine Covet a home of trinkets, living supine So tell me what is real and all that constitutes that A collared man breathes on your neck, they’re on your back In fact, fuck that: I pity you Validation, valediction What’s the difference now? Eschew the standard Turn the paradigm upside down You could be happy, if you wanted to be Don’t feel obliged to live a life you never wanted to The best way out is straight through Let intuition guide you You could be happy, if you wanted to be But you know that you don’t Don’t you pay no heed to those who take no liberties The way of the sheep is not for me (Behind your walls, you cannot see) I’m glad you met the standard So pleased you met your quota It’s myopic Hand in your pocket Mind on your wallet Fuck that I pity you Live for you Validation, valediction What’s the difference now? Eschew the standard Turn the paradigm upside down You could be happy, if you wanted to be Don’t feel obliged to live a life you never wanted to The best way out is straight through Let intuition guide you You could be happy, if you wanted to be But you know that you don’t (Back) So bring it back to me (So) So tell me honestly (Friend) My friend, don’t lie to me Did you ever really love everything that you did And everywhere that you’ve been? Are you just scared to live? So don’t accuse me of living a life I’ll regret I’m not a hypocrite - another marionette So hold your hands high You abide by your strings in the sky Dancing to a preordained lie You’re a marionette Validation, valediction What’s the difference now? Eschew the standard Turn the paradigm upside down You could be happy, if you wanted to be Don’t feel obliged to live a life you never wanted to The best way out is straight through Let intuition guide you You could be happy, if you wanted to be

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026

I hate the radio Advertisements, morning show hosts And every cop on the side of the road Everything outside the windscreen disturbs me But inside it’s worse The thresher that we call this world Reduces me to mere idle talk I’m slowly but certainly descending Fuck you for not being strong enough For letting me bare the weight of both of us I can’t forever be your crutch (I can’t forever be your crutch) Today I think I’ve had enough (I think I’ve had enough) High at the airport, drunk at the beach I’ve been numb for weeks, I can’t feel a thing I’ll swill or smoke, I’ll roll a note If I just swallow, I’ll prevent the choke So keep me up (keep me out) Of this house (of this mind) Cause there a’int no use in worrying all the time Take me back to where the flowers grow To the man in the mirror that I used to know Fuck you for not being strong enough For letting me bare the weight of both of us I can’t forever be your crutch Today I think I’ve had enough (today I think I’ve had enough) Enough, enough - I’m screaming Enough, enough - can you hear me now? Enough, enough - I’m screaming In mess I should be cleaning, running The carousel slows, reality starts to set in My friends are climbing off How long have the horses been plastic? Have we been going in circles? Was I always alone? Was it their voices I heard, or was it a dial tone? I think I’ve always known But I never cared to pay heed Because I'm not, I’m not, I’m not, I’m not Ready to up and leave At least just not like this Cause this was our abyss I loved you all, this was our home We were together and I love it as it is

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026

Death is a friend that we serve ’til the end and she’s near Sink, drown Can you hear me? Do you feel it? Right here, watch the Lotus Eater drown Sink, drown He’ll never be found Empty within Empty without my pentecostal kin You are the tick of the analogue clock The hum and rattle that’ll never stop The spluttering cough of the refrigerator motor I cannot exist without her, but she won’t let me go Sink, drown Can you hear me? Do you feel it? Right here, watch the Lotus Eater drown Sink, drown He’ll never be found Raise your glass to the Lotus Eater As he drifts into the ether Can you take me to meet her? She who brings panic and fever She ate when I ate, she drank when I drank But she never slept when I slept She’d terrorise me as I dreamt Cognitive dissonance reigns supreme in me As is her will Sink, drown Can you hear me? Do you feel it? Right here, watch the Lotus Eater drown Sink, drown He’ll never be found Raise your glass to the Lotus Eater As he drifts into the ether Can you take me to meet her? She who brings panic and fever, fever Sink, drown Can you hear me? Do you feel it? Right here, watch the Lotus Eater drown Sink, drown He’ll never be found Raise your glass to the Lotus Eater As he drifts into the ether Can you take me to meet her? She who brings panic and fever Raise your glass to the Lotus Eater As he drifts into the ether Can you take me to meet her? She who brings panic and fever, fever

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026

Who put the cross in your hands The beads around your neck? The needle in their arms The hood around their heads? Sanctuary And so they say; ‘Let he without sin, cast the first stone’ While they pile up their rocks from within their glass homes And now, no, nothing means much, ’till it’s written in our blood But oh, the bloodshed that we’ve condoned If the grief is inexhaustible and the guilt is unendurable Then how is one to bear their family name? Oh holy ghost, tell me, where did you go? All that you left behind is shame To the priest that steals purity while he whispers holy things To the pig besmirching the innocent behind the pretence of peace Who put the cross in your hands The beads around your neck? The needle in their arms The hood around their heads? Who put the cross in your hands The beads around your neck? The needle in their arms The hood around their heads? So here I stand, a sinner of inattention In this parody of parity How is this still happening After we’ve lost so many? Sanctuary Sanctuary To the priest that steals purity while he whispers holy things To the pig besmirching the innocent behind the pretence of peace (Pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, go) To He drenched in sin To the reprehensible limb Of the Lord’s honest, faithful kin Those demons clad in sheepskin Tell me Does it make you feel sick? Tell-me doesn’t-it make you feel sick? And isn’t it time we stood up? And isn’t it time that we sung? Who put the cross in your hands The beads around your neck? The needle in their arms The hood around their heads? Who put the cross in your hands The beads around your neck? The needle in their arms The hood around their heads? Who put the cross in your hands The beads around your neck? The needle in their arms The hood around their heads? Who put the cross in your hands The beads around your neck? The needle in their arms The hood around their heads? Does he celebrate his faith Or does he mourn it? Absolve the sins of all the wicked Or absorb them? Does he celebrate his faith Or does he mourn it? Absolve the sins of all the wicked Or absorb them?

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026

I thought I was a bad person I was a dirty little girl I never once blamed the priest I hated myself I was violated I was a 9/10 year old kid Thinking he's committed the worst sin in the world I hated myself because of what happened He's gonna like this kid He told me, every time my life There's pretty much immediately self blame, self guilt And I turned inward, I hated myself I would do everything, everything I was very confused All my life I have struggled with intimacy To seek out and find this priest, to beg him for forgiveness As I was convinced that this was the best thing This is what happens when people love each other Whether or not he was smart This is love this is natural this is normal I didn't love myself for it I didn't think anyone would love me It wasn't his fault, it was mine

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026

Just as the sound of a tin roof expanding in the sun Differs not from the sound of the rain Falling in and out of love, sometimes Can begin to feel the same But I'm smoking more, I'm eating less I've lost capacity to excess And so through a note or blown up in smoke I relinquish all my control And when you talk too much People start thinking they heard things that you never said When you’re verbally incontinent Who could truly understand what you meant? Excess gave wings - learn to fly Come sunrise, it took away the sky But I'm cognisant of the hefty price How many does it bring back to life? I'm drinking more and I'm sleeping less I'm losing all that I possess I'm happiest, when I'm a mess But I can’t survive as anything less than this Anything less than this And if I drink too much I don’t think that you’ll believe all that I have to say I’ll be fucking incoherent then And you’ll have never understood what I meant When I speak of the end Articulate, enunciate “So what the fuck are you trying to say?” My axiom, my oxygen Honey, rid yourself of me I'm a fucking disease In a world contrived, I swore it on my life That I'd never be the one to leave your side Time heals and time takes away But to you, I'll remain a fucking liar And you were so fucked up That I don’t know if I can live with all that I have said I’ve lost all self-respect And no longer can I sleep with your voice in my head Articulate, enunciate “So what the fuck are you trying to say?” My axiom, my oxygen Honey, rid yourself of me I'm a fucking disease So shame, shame, shame on me I could never have done this without a drink And so shame, shame, shame on me Honey, rid yourself of me I'm a fucking disease

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026

This is insulation for the night cold A cigarette and a drink to lacquer over bones You either kindle the blood or shiver yourself warm And the precipice of joyous madness calls in me Aren’t we ecstatic as we dance along it? Blunting the time-sharpened edge of neuroses Nullification, vivification Tantamount powers at a stalemate in me Aren’t we ecstatic as we all dance along it? Our wet precipice (Pour a drink and take a seat beside me) To each their own perspective, each their own vice And I’ve made up my mind Pour up a drink, take a seat with me And we’ll flood out everything You need someone, and I give a fuck So let’s give those demons wings And regardless of the way that the pendulum swings I’ve come to realise that it’s okay to believe That life is nothing but a vertiginous dream And that’s all I’ve ever wanted it to be Breaking my own heart to feel the love Like the love of one’s youth, that makes you jump and run You either kindle the blood or shiver yourself warm So bring it back, raise your voice, put your glass to your lips and drink Aren’t we ecstatic as we all dance along it? Our wet precipice (Pour a drink and take a seat beside me) To each their own perspective, each their own vice And I’ve made up my mind Pour up a drink, take a seat with me And we’ll flood out everything You need someone, and I give a fuck So let’s give those demons wings You’re stronger than addiction Stronger than even bereavement My friend I’ve seen it And our vigils, pickled in whiskey Are preserved eternally in my enduring memory Aren’t we ecstatic as we all dance along it? Our wet precipice (Pour a drink and take a seat beside me) To each their own perspective, each their own vice And I’ve made up my mind Pour up a drink, take a seat with me And we’ll flood out everything You need someone, and I give a fuck So let’s give those demons wings Kindle the blood or shiver yourself warm Kindle the blood or shiver yourself warm

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026

Sojourner, sojourn on Sojourner, sojourn on 'Cause we are leaves in the breeze devoid of purpose, at ease And we vilify for validity with vicious vignettes, so ugly I am just as guilty and I have been wrong So you can call me a hypocrite, slander our songs But you should be just as ashamed of yourself as I am of me For accepting mediocrity and bending your knee Not quite indefatigable and far from unimpeachable I am, not. I’m not As an artist, a musician, a man I’d much prefer to be hated than pitied To fall flat on my face trying to innovate Than to meet an industry-imposed standard and rest on it I’ll take a propensity for verbosity Over pontifical duplicity - and primarily That’s what we have now That’s what we have now So is this who I am? So is this who you are? So is this who we are? I think we’re better than this

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026

No Bogart, no Bergman, no Brando No more Hemingway, no Hesse - the art ingrained in our marrow So in retrospect does it not seem, that we lament the grace of greats as we do our youthful dreams? But in nuance, we are capable of our own renaissance A respiring anachronism to animate us And as long as we sing, we can stay young like this And we can Reinvent the world, like we used to, screaming Years will wilt and I will mourn I will decay until my body fades away But my kindnesses are eternal (I am infinite, I will remain) The years will wilt and I will mourn but You’re as beautiful as the day you were born, and that’s true (You’re still here) No Lennon, no Cash or Sinatra No more Morrison, no Jackson - all with whom we were brought up And so it seems I’m here interminably Like I’m sewing all my stitches in lieu of my seeds Like I'm grasping to sand in a salubrious sea Youth slip faster through fingers, the harder I squeeze And then I doubt if I’ll love anything The way I loved those songs when I was seventeen Reinvent the world, like we used to, screaming Years will wilt and I will mourn I will decay until my body fades away But my kindnesses are eternal (I am infinite, I will remain) The years will wilt and I will mourn but You’re as beautiful as the day you were born, and that’s true (You’re still here) Friends raise you as much as family (And I believe) this way, youth is sustained eternally (And I believe) love is the only currency And I believe, love is all that defines me I now believe that time will increase your worth That you’re as beautiful, as the day you were born The truth is - we’re all scared, we’re all unprepared But together we stand - look to your right, to your left And breathe (Still here with me, still here with me, still here with me) You’re still here with me So were we born and raised to be the same? No, no We are not the same and there is no one way We are each unique but we are equal It’s your brush, your canvas and easel Everyone must pave their own way We have to change, we have to change And if we don’t we’ll suffocate Reinvent the world, like we used to, screaming Years will wilt and I will mourn I will decay until my body fades away But my kindnesses are eternal (I am infinite, I will remain) The years will wilt and I will mourn but You’re as beautiful as the day you were born, and that’s true (You’re still here) You’re as beautiful as the day you were born, you're you

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Feb 23, 2026