If You're Going To Stay
by Michael Doyle

Despite the world's distractions
We hear the clarion call for action
There is much to be done
If this battle is to be won

Each side fights to stay on top
In and endless cycle that never stops
It doesn't matter, wrong or right
Most are here just to stay in the fight

If you're going to stay, then stay
If you're not, then just runaway
If you stay, then things must change
The dominos on the table rearrange

Bringing this as if the madness grows
This is the mystery of how it goes
A bullet finds its home in the flesh
Lord knows, how it got to be this mess

Dog-eat-dog, the world knows
In the rules of this game of shadows
A hammer to the head leaves you just as dead
As the loose lips sinking ships as it's said

If you're going to stay, then stay
If you're not, then just runaway
If you stay, then things must change
The dominos on the table rearrange

Bleeding out on the basement floor
Is something a little hard to ignore
There's a lot of pain that's felt
Over all the blood that's been spilt

Morbidity has head its erosion
Like the poison pen of the worse corrosion
My confidence is dented by your conception
That I'd be any part of this world's deceptions

If you're going to stay, then stay
If you're not, then just runaway
If you stay, then things must change
The dominos on the table rearrange

(c) January 22, 2025   Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved