Impatience (Outro)

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[Outro Poem]: How much does it pay to be patient? Is that the same thing as complacence? How much does it cost to be an inpatient In the hospitals dim basement Suffering from the condition called impatience? The doctor says this condition has split stages Stage 1: False Hope The belief that I can take what I give Given that what I give is the same as what I take Then my take on my stakes in this game will make me rich The belief that I can give away my given time And I'm simply guaranteed to take a nickel and a dime 'Til the day I say goodbye and I reach my finish line While the clock goes Round and round again Stage 2: Vivid Hallucinations I might see a younger version of myself Reciting a poem from two ripped pages It goes One pill, two pill Red pill, blue pill Maybe Morpheus morphing us with prescription for new pills Daydream or reality? There's reds, blues and purples My mind spinning in circles Round and round again Not even wheels on the school bus could handle that terrain Feel like I'm relearning what I learned from my first thousand days Twenty four thousand hours that molded my childish ways When I chose ignorance over reality, profound mistake I might see a younger version of myself Reading a picture book about a rodent in a cell Block of cheddar hang in front of him, he chase it but he fails Hamster wheel stay spinning Round and round again Stage 3, the final stage of this illness: Perceived Paralysis The doctor tells me what's happens is My body is physically fine but mind can't fully fathom it So it feels like I'm frozen and my ability's inadequate But doc assures me there's no reason to be afraid He knows how to cure my illness but only at this deeper stage He tells me it involves tying strings to my limbs And pulling them so he can make me grab a papers and a pen He told me not to worry about exactly what is on 'em Just to let him take control to sign the pages at the bottom He tells me that with a quickest flick of my wrists he'll fix Every single one of my many problems And I believed him So now fast forward to this very stage in my treatment I take his word for it, cause I'd rather take it than leave it So I let him sign my signature right on the agreement And just like he said, I felt my body regain feeling I just beat this illness I just beat impatience For a couple seconds I swear, it really felt amazing! But then clock stop working, the wheels stop spinning, coins stop rolling Round and round again It took until my dusk for it to really dawn on me What if this doctor was just a figment of my illness, of my demons Using me as a pawn for cheap What if he lied to me? *Would you lie to me, just take my shine from me?* And made me give in to what my impatience was asking for Made me give in for a quick fix just so he could snatch my soul How much does it pay to be patient? They say that it pays well How much does it pay to be patient? I guess I couldn't stick around long enough to tell How much does it pay to be patient? Maybe enough to buy another soul, so I can learn how to live So these days won't be last, and I can watch the world spin Round and round again