Fight Club

Verse 1

Both sides of my mind

Put up a good fight

Here's the rub

They seem to be auditioning

For Fight Club

Verse 2

The right side of my brain

Hits hard the left

With mixed messages

They mindlessly

Go toe to toe

Endlessly

With their unseen foe

Never face-to-face

Never to know

They occupy the same space

Verse 3

It's a long step off

To careen back

From this seductive neurosis

When the fight is your own

And sanity runs wild

Like lemmings off a cliff

Bridge

I confess sometimes

I love staring into the abyss

When only I hear the crowd boo

From the bruised egos

Of endless indecisions

Leaving my Fight Club, wondering

Hook

What quality of soap

Tyler Durden could make

With my grey matter

Verse 4

If you have two cocky roosters

Who spar in your mind

That sticks in your craw

Demanding a split decision

Or a majority draw

Outro

Trust the right and left

Will never know that you

Referee the space between them

–but you do

As the third person in the ring

Of your own Fight Club

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