CHASE

The ones you chase always run away

The ones you don't cling to stay

What's with these chicks they love the game

Even though it leads to no fame

If only they knew the way of the heart

They wouldn't smite you without a shout

Why the hell are you so frustrated?

God damnit you feel so saturated

Life is not free

You've got to pay a price

Even if you're nice

Your foot's stuck in the ice

Trying to break free from the norms of the world

Acceptance playing a big fat role

There has to be a being somewhere in this hole

Who can come around and make you whole

They say half the fun is in the chase

Even though you know it's not the case

They came up with the phrase

To pacify their jilted maze

BANNED

Lift this ban up
There’s nothing to control

Tear this ban up
There’s nothing to hold

Of all the highs in the world
Alcohol seems the devils own

While things like tobacco are there so cheap
A box of booze is not for keeps

It’s not only smoking that I mean
The chewable kind is harder to free

Why oh why then do we have this ban?
To fill the holes of people who never had

Gandhi wanted it for political reason
To stop the revenue for British treason

Gave up his life for the people of this nation
Corruption is the only gift we have given

Enter the thought of a Gujarati's mind
Safety correlates to the consumption of its kind

Hence it is labelled as a bad thing
Not thinking where all of it is going

Pay a hefty sum to bootleg a bottle
Most of the money goes for illicit extortion

Generating sums of millions
Not one paisa of it is legal

The poor who cannot afford these kind
Turn to their natives, drinking blind

The local shine can be fatal
Things added to increase intoxication

Still the big-wigs just stand by
With a tall glass of an aged wine

Even though the issue is faced by thousands
All we can do is bemoan the situation

The young Gujju out of his home
Sees a booze shop and loses control

Thus starts a drinking binge
Away from home
Who’s gonna see him?
His folks are at home

I’ve lost all hope of seeing a pub
Where I can just go and have some fun

Fast forward a million years this affair will prevail
It’ll reach a point where there’s only despair

Go-A!

Surrounded by heavenly bodies

In every shape and form

None of it matters to me

Solitude is all I want

Hard to imagine a place like this

Where you see things in eternal bliss

No one around gives a damn

But you have water everywhere

There is no torment anywhere

Happiness all the way

The tide is low take a dip

The tide goes high take a sip

Sit in a shack by the beach

Order some breakfast and some tea

Laze the morning in the shade

Get on the bike and ride away

Feel no tension in your way

Get to the next beach and press repeat

I promise, you can do this for weeks

The folk around don’t bother

But some around do matter

Livelihood, the biggest enemy

You'll be fleeced for every penny

In hindsight, it will all fade

The memories will be all that remain

Oh, Goa, you're amazing

Even when the sun is blazing

Just stay the way you are

No matter how near how far

A place where you can Go-A!

Inhuman

Learn the way of the high life

Grow up to be a big shot

But you're still missing shit

From the aforementioned high life

Spit on the sidewalk, inhuman

Trash the road, inhuman

Leave the lights on, inhuman

Burn the oxygen, inhuman

The dogs are wailing, inhuman

The poor are howling, inhuman

The world is crying, inhuman

But you don’t care...

Cause you're inhuman

Follow hypocrisy, inhuman

Put up a facade, inhuman

Say what is tough, inhuman

Do what is easy, inhuman

Respect the pope, inhuman

Diss your dad, inhuman

Salute the president, inhuman

Screw the army, inhuman

Lie to your folks, inhuman

Shy on the world, inhuman

Escape the good, inhuman

Join evil, inhuman

Say A, inhuman

Do B, inhuman

Hail C, inhuman

Ignore D, inhuman

You’re a coward, inhuman

Prick yourself, inhuman

Puff away, inhuman

Down the bottle, inhuman

Drown your sorrows, inhuman

Wake the next day, inhuman

Continue the cycle, inhuman

Hump the world, inhuman

Hypocrisy rules

Faith blues

Emotional diss

Ignorance bliss

Someone oughta slap you, inhuman

Wake the hell up, inhuman

Stop this shit, inhuman

Spare the world, inhuman

Try to be human, inhuman

RUNNING

Lying, cheating, deceit...

What’s the world come to?

Or was it always like this?

The insurance scam

The loan scam

The fodder scam

The software scam

The scams are endless

And hence the shams are endless

The cocky charades and plastic smiles

Never cease to befriend the mind

The deeper the wound

The more you sink

Till you are consumed by glee

And all of you is accounted for

The green is a nasty thing

The smell of it, the feel of it

The habit of it, the want of it

Makes you forget humanity

To the depths of the unknown you fall

Becoming a hungrier beast

Such a part of us it’s become

Guilt doesn't even come up

But, there still lies hope in a few

The ones who think alike

Running the other way

The Wanderer

Sleep in the morning

Wake in the night
Thank the lord you're still alive

Wondering where you were

Confused where you are

An angel on one end

The devil on the other

Rustling between two worlds

He is The Wanderer

In the cold black night

He ventures alone

From the arms of Mary

To the depths of Hades

Feeling the torment everyday

Doing nothing to make it go away

Reunion Bites

At the tender age of 8

You're thrown in the midst of new mates

Living the life of a prince

The school you've gone to is the shit

Years go by with new faces

Growing up seeing changes

The values instilled are there to stay

The wrongs built-in will hopefully go away

Such is the phase of school life

Learn a lot through getting into fights

There are some who do not wish to grow

Trivial bullshit is all they look for

Such was the case back then

10 years later all hasn't changed

Though a decade is a long time to ponder

Going back was so overwhelming that I wonder

Time flew by the nine years I was there

Suddenly I’m back with some who care

The beauty of the school remains as it is

The fields where we weeded look as bright

Blood, sweat and tears

The good, the bad, the fears

Some have grown up to be stars

Some are still whining about bars

Some are leading a peaceful life

Some have gone the anonymous way

Issues there are plenty

Solutions there are tenfold

It’s about who takes the first step

Cause the blame goes in his stead

The rest will still look on

And compare us to the elite ones

Writing this I’ve identified

The problem facing all mayoites

Trying to keep up with the world

Education having absolutely no role

The ego then is still here to stay

Can’t do jack with it in the way!