Sweet Suburbia

Driving down the street, sweet suburbia exhales, scents of butter pecans and apple blossoms penetrate the wind, but secrets hide behind this serene atmosphere. Momma's passed out on the couch, Jack's become her best friend. She has numbed out the pain around her, rejects the truth. Bobby loves his gun, he knows how to make it all come to an end. One day he'll have the courage, and take everyone else with him. Suzy hides in her closet, she doesn't want daddy to find her, have his ways like he does. She just wants to fade away and die. Papa's working late, thinking of his sweet desert, no one knows the world he creates, while he pushes reality away. Mittens sits in the windowsill, watches the strangers pass by, his tail twitching back and forth, the only thing that knows the truth behind the doors. While the house silently cries, the world will still drive by. Smell the sweetness in the wind, be hypnotized, by a sweet suburban lie.