Nobody’s Listening

Nobody’s Listening

Song by Linkin Park

Lyrics

Come, come, come, come, coming at you
Come, coming at you, come, coming at you

Yo, peep the style and the kids checking for it
The number one question is how could you ignore it?
We drop right back in the cut over basement tracks
With raps that got you backing this up like
Rewind that we’re just rolling with the rhythm
Rise from the ashes of stylistic division

With these non-stop lyrics of life living
Not to be forgotten but still unforgiven
But in the meantime there are those who wanna talk this and that
So I suppose that it gets to a point where feelings gotta get hurt
And get dirty with the people spreading the dirt, it goes

Try to give you warning, but everyone ignores me
Told you everything loud and clear (but nobody’s listening)
Call to you so clearly, but you don’t want to hear me
Told you everything loud and clear (but nobody’s listening)

I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress
Handful of anger held in my chest
And everything left’s a waste of time
I hate my rhymes, but hate everyone else’s more
I’m ridin’ on the back of this pressure
Guessin’ that it’s better I can’t keep myself together

Because all of this stress gave me somethin’ to write on
The pain gave me somethin’ I could set my sights on
You never forget the blood, sweat, and tears
The uphill struggle over years, the fear
And trash talkin’ and the people it was to
And the people that started it, just like you

Try to give you warning, but everyone ignores me
Told you everything loud and clear (but nobody’s listening)
Call to you so clearly, but you don’t want to hear me
Told you everything loud and clear (but nobody’s listening)

I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress
Handful of anger held in my chest
Uphill struggle, blood, sweat, and tears
Nothing to gain, everything to fear
Heart full of pain, head full of stress
Handful of anger held in my chest
Uphill struggle, blood, sweat, and tears
Nothing to gain, everything to fear
Heart full of pain

Try to give you warning, but everyone ignores me
Told you everything loud and clear (but nobody’s listening)
Call to you so clearly, but you don’t want to hear me
Told you everything loud and clear (but nobody’s listening)

I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress (nobody’s listening)
Handful of anger held in my chest (nobody’s listening)
Uphill struggle, blood, sweat, and tears (nobody’s listening)
Nothin’ to gain, everything to fear (nobody’s listening)

Come, come, come, come, coming at you
Come, coming, come, come, coming at you
Come, coming, come, come, coming at
Come, come, come, come, coming at you from every side

This song is in my head as I can’t seem to sleep tonight. I got a pain in my chest. Not an actual physical pain but a psychache kind of pain. I got my mother on my mind. I have been tossing and turning the past couple of hours. I finally gave up and took some Ativan to try and get some sleep.

I started re-reading Kay Redfield Jamison’s Unquiet Mind. It is her memoir. I forgot how much she writes and goes off on tangents sometimes. I get it. I used to. It amazes me that when I first started writing my blog, I was writing 1500 words or more each day or every other day. Now I am lucky if I get 300 words written. I was much freer with my words than I am now. I seemed to have closed up over the years, more so in the last few months as I am still recovering from my suicide attempt that I spent two months in the medical floor and one month in the psych unit. My mind still struggles to grasp at feelings. Most of the time, I don’t feel anything but numbness. As my mother gets sicker, I am getting more jaded and irritable at times. I want to be left alone.

I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but I started writing another book. This one is a trans memoir. I started writing it because a nurse on the unit wanted me to write, thinking it will be good. I have no direction for this book. It is a hodgepodge of writing right now. No clear chapters or anything. Not a complete mess but I am working on it slowly. I figure I will write more when I am recovering from top surgery. That is the goal anyways. I had an aunt yesterday ask me why am I having surgery as men “have boobs”. WTF how stupid can you be? I was really offended by the question. I’ve been wanting this surgery since I was 13. I’ve waited a long time for this. In thirty-five days, I will have it done.

I will always be afraid of the damage I’ve received

I will always be afraid of the damage I’ve received

Still listening to Lost. Today has been a hard day. I was watching my mother. My aunt came over and we talked about things. My mother was okay and then she wasn’t. My aunt broke down crying while my other aunt, who brought a friend over the house, watched. I am really upset that my aunt brought someone over the house while my mother wasn’t feeling good. I mean, what the fuck. I am so tired.

I took a shower because I sweated all night again. I don’t know if someone touched the heat, but it went on and my room got so fucking hot. I slept without a shirt on most of the night. I kept waking up during the night. It was so hard sleeping. Then when I did sleep, I had the weirdest dreams.

I’ve had three cups of coffee today. I feel wired. I have changed my music back to Red TV. I needed to listen to Taylor. I feel like going to the store to get some chips. I am kind of hungry despite eating a cheeseburger.

I have a busy week. I have therapy Tues, PT Wed, and an eye appointment Thurs. I need to get my eyes examined because I think I have dry eyes again. My eyes have been feeling sticky in the morning and throughout the day. Hopefully eye drops will help. I can’t wait for therapy because of everything that has happened the past few days. I feel like I am shutting down. It is hard watching someone be in horrific pain every day and moan. Just fucking sucks.

I am feeling pressured to feel when I don’t know what I am feeling. Most of the time, I feel numb or really sad. Today I felt anger at my aunt for being stupid. I still feel anger when I think about her. I just cannot stand this aunt. I feel helpless when I am caring for this woman that I don’t even like (my mom). It is so hard sorting out how to feel about this. At the same time, I don’t care. Or I don’t want to care. I care for her because it is expected of me. I don’t want the woman to fall or be alone too long. It gets tiring though. I have to watch her again tonight because my sisters are going to the movies. It just never ends. I will always worry about her. I have since I was a kid. I have taken care of her as a kid. It was my job to do it.

I am having an issue with UMB. They refuse (so far) to change my name in the system so I have to use my dead name as my email address. I still don’t have access to the system because I don’t have a password. I will try and call the IT dept Tuesday as the office is closed tomorrow. I hope this isn’t going to be a big issue for them. I don’t see how it is logical to use a name that is no longer valid.

Lost

Lost

Lost

Song by Linkin Park

Just a scar somewhere down inside of me
Something I cannot repair
Even though it will always be
I pretend it isn’t there (this is how I feel)
I’m trapped in yesterday (just stay out of my way)
Where the pain is all I know (this is all I know)

And I’ll never break away (can’t break free)
‘Cause when I’m alone

I’m lost in these memories
Living behind my own illusion
Lost all my dignity
Living inside my own confusion

But I’m tired, I will always be afraid
Of the damage I’ve received
Broken promises they made
And how blindly I believed (this is all I know)

I will never break away (can’t break free)
‘Cause when I’m alone

I’m lost in these memories
Living behind my own illusion
Lost all my dignity
Living inside my own confusion

I try to keep this pain inside but I will never be alright
I try to keep this pain inside but I will never be alright
(I’m lost) I try to keep this pain inside but I will never be alright
(I’m lost) I try to keep this pain inside but I will never be alright

I’m lost in these memories
Living behind my own illusion
Lost all my dignity
Living inside my own confusion

I have been listening to this song all week on repeat. It sums up how I feel. I have had a shit week where my mother hasn’t been feeling good. It has been hard to see. I seriously thought we would have to take her to the hospital but she felt better yesterday. Today she feels awful again. Watching her has been so hard. I was able to get out of the house for a little bit on Thursday to pick up my prescription. I took a shower that day. I need to take another one today as the heat was on high all night and I was sweating so bad.

I have been shutting down the past few days. It has been hard to write how I feel. I am not really sure I know how I feel. I just feel so numb at times. Listening to Linkin Park’s Meteora’s album has been helping me cope as the lyrics are how I have been feeling. It is just a perfect album to feeling turmoil. Lost just adds to it. I cannot wait for the 20th Anniversary edition to come out.

I need to do my meds for the week. My primary doc sent the wrong formulary of my stomach pill so instead of capsules, I have oral dissolving tablets. I hate them so much. I specifically asked for capsules and got these stupid tablets. UGH. Now I got to wait 90 days to order the right ones.

I didn’t sleep well last night because it was so fricken hot in my room. I woke up around 5 to pee and had a very hard time going back to sleep. Yesterday I spent all day in bed. I just couldn’t face the day. We had family over the house, again, and it has just been too much. Every other day my aunt comes over. Or both aunts will and then they argue over stupid shit, mostly who is right and who is wrong. It is tiring.