Troll Lyrics - Shane Koyczan

Once upon a time, you and all your kind 

lived underneath bridges 

had ridges for ribs that dropped off into empty chests 

as if your hearts were all stolen treasures 

as if an excavation crew were hired to dig up and remove the part of you that let you feel 

and while the world above you invented the wheel you stayed put 

knowing that would one day roll over top of you to get to where it's going 

you had an endlessly flowing supply line of food 

you began to brood over humanity and made meals of our hope 

as if crushing our spirits would make your mirrors cast better reflections than the ones they gave 

as if the only way you could save yourselves was to make the world ugly so no one would notice you hided in it 

you learned to knit pain into a kind of camouflage 

treated hope like a mirage that you could use to lure in your next meal 

you lived off our fears, you could taste what we feared 

and every night, as the moon at bedtime stories on sunlight 

you took darkness as an invite to head out into the woods 

you curled your hands into wrecking balls 

your breath became squalls, you made rocks rumble, 

you made land shiver, you made boys and girls pray that someone would deliver them from you 

we told them, you aren't real 

and then one day, the world changed 

but you all stayed the same 

just migrated from living underneath bridges to living underneath information superhighways 

days and nights became meaningless, each already deep in chest became an abyss no one would ever find the bottom of 

concepts like love fell into your gravity 

we turned ourselves into life preservers hoping to save as many as we could 

but the fathers who guarded closet doors and the mothers who secured the floors under beds all shook their heads not knowing how to deal with you 

you, who crept into our lives, with tongues like knifes stabbing your words into our skin 

you began to begin uploading yourselves into our homes 

you had computer screens for eyes and software for bones 

you turned your hate into stones 

and hurled them at beauty, as if you couldn't bear to see anything other than ugly 

anything different 

you had fingernails like flint and scraped them against decency hoping we would be the ones to all catch fire 

you all had smiles like one-way barbed wire not meant to keep us out, but to keep us in 

always like a firing pin, you spoke in explosions 

it isn't cute 

it isn't funny 

you talked strangers into death 

and laughed 

and as each family learns to graft skin over the wounds you gave them, you helm yourself into the scar 

you have coaxed the sober back into bars, handed out cigars at memorials 

offered nooses, cliffs, and pills to those who unfortunately found you before they found help 

you praised suffering 

waltzed in between tragedies, gracefully dipping miseries as if we would be somehow impressed by the dexterity of your animosity 

you cheered on rape 

dashed through police tape as if it were the finish line in a race on who could be awful first 

even now 

you somehow see this as an invitation to turn your keyboards into catapults 

wondering which one of you can be the first to hate us best 

your loathing 

already dressed in riot gear 

ready to incite rage 

as if each message board is a stage who you recite hostility turning freedom of speech into freedom of cruelty 

we are stuck with you 

the same way you are stuck with you 

your mind is glue and it keeps malice fastened there like cheap wallpaper 

we were once upon a time told that none of you exist 

we dismissed you as make believe or myth, now 

on only with resolve 

we can no longer afford to tell ourselves, that you aren't real 

we will not let you make your dinners out of the things we feel. 

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