Go Gently

Well, I got a job conducting exit interviews.
Yeah, suicide’s privatized since twenty seventy two.
I’m a hundred years old ‘cause our science is good
But you can’t fit one more tent in my neighborhood.
Every fetus been born since twenty twenty five
Into a shit storm avalanche they don’t want to survive.

Come down to Go Gently if you’d like to resign.
Our check-out service time has been streamlined.
This cold Ohio winter has just begun.
Yeah, “Bring a Friend Friday” is two for one.

She blew in on the wind as I was taking my break.
She drew me in with skin thin as a snowflake.
“Welcome to Go Gently. Please, have have a seat.
Just a couple data sheets here to complete.”
I put her into the system, checked her chip I.D.
She was breaking my heart looking straight through me.

“Well, I have to ask a few questions for posterity.”
She said, “All you want is E-currency”.
“Well, just tell me the reason you came in today.”
She said, “I saw your billboard out by the skyway,
And your maniacle jingle’s like gum on my shoe."
She reminded me of someone but couldn’t say who.

I said, “Why do I feel like I’ve loved you before?”
“You did,” she said, “but more than I could endure.
Back then, when they proved there’s no afterlife,
Disappointment carved out my soul with a butcher knife.
It may be burried under the ocean in a ziplock bag.
It may be on the moon clinging to the American flag.”

Come down to Go Gently if you’d like to resign.
Our check-out service time has been streamlined.
This cold Ohio winter has just begun.
Yeah, “Bring a Friend Friday” is two for one.

Then, flashback, I saw the engagement ring
She refused, renewed an 80 year old sting.
I said, “There ain’t a soul left whole in all humanity,”
She said, “Then, you might as well come along with me,”
And tried to take me by the hand, but I clenched my fist.
She said, “Let’s see what it feels like to not exist.”

Come down to Go Gently if you’d like to resign.
Our check-out service time has been streamlined.
This cold Ohio winter has just begun.
“Find a Friend Friday.” We all need someone...

To go gently with us into oblivion.