You gotta give 

You gotta give me a better reason 

to listen to you 

it's gonna take 

it's gonna take more than shouting at me 

to make me concede 



you should have left it alone 



too late open mouth

stupid words

like "never again" and "only one more time"

being lame

doing things you know better than that

is it too much to ask 



we're older, not wiser, contrite and indifferent

we're learning, just slower

and someday we'll be the ones to point and to blame