A Punk Rock Sense of Honesty

So, I've been listening to a lot of Frank Turner lately (a folk-punk rocker) who is an amazing songwriter! The title is taken from part of a line in his song "Nashville, TN" the entire line is "A simple scale on an old guitar, and a punk rock sense of honesty." I was driving around today and the last part of the line just stuck with me, so of course, I decided to write about it. This is pretty much a stream-of-conscious piece, so the formatting is very intentional in this one. Hope you like it! Let me know! Thanks!!

I absolutely Love this photo of Frank! From Google Image

 A Punk Rock Sense of Honesty

Passion.

Passion of friends, family, causes, life!

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

I rage quietly

                        and loudly

when things go bad

or in celebration

                               when life is kicking ass.

You piss me off and I

will scream at you face-to-face,

in your face,

me more than likely on my tiptoes.

You make me cry

and I will hug you

fiercely

and try to never let go

until my arms tire and I need my space.

I will scream, rage, and cry

about injustices faced by you, me, and the world.

For the early needless death of the ones who’ve lit

fires in our souls,

for the loss of our carefree lives

and the depletion of our sense of calm.

I sit outside a coffeehouse

calm, writing, quietly

while my head buzzes with an ever continuous monologue

of life, and with tunes running through my brain.

I realize that I’ve gotten off the topic

of punk rock honesty,

yet we never really quite left it after all.

Punk has always equaled passion

for life and everything it compromises,

and honesty is excepting life.

and honesty is trying to change

the needless bullshit and injustices thrown into our world,

it’s not staying silent.

We write songs, poems, prose

about ourselves, our hearts, our worlds, our friends

as honestly as we can, no matter what.

We laugh together

We cry together

We party together

We fight together

We live together

We dream together

We look at the world

and tell it that we

Will Not Be Ignored.

We’ve lived,

and our stories will be told.

and That is punk rock honesty.

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