Tick and a tock

Grandfather clock

Time has passed

I'm still swinging, swinging

Sickening thoughts, of

Going back farther, stop!

Time has passed

I'm still swinging, swinging

From, right to left

And left to right, I'm

Crying, then hands

Set to rights, and my

Timekeeping's off

Then it rights, so that

I can't rest even at night

So I'm up when the moon's out

Living tough, cogs rust

When my mood's down

Swinging much

Chiming out

It gets too loud

Hours numbered til

My mood's out of tune now

Back and forth my feelings change

Ever shifting, never the same

Swing regular but strange

Like a pendulum, pendulum

When my depression hits

It bruises

Spells doom

When my mood flips

When my mood swings

It's abusive

I'm fighting with myself

And I'm losing

Yeah, don't encroach upon this

Emotional rollercoasters, folks that

Are close know

If I'm provoked I'm gon' flip

I hope, fold, then I grow

Close to controlling it

I get combative

And a little frantic

Then I tend to snap

Like abracadabra

As if it was magic

Then I get in a panic

Thinking I have hurt

Family members in a manic fit

I haven't

But feel like I did the damage

I just want to be elated

When I do things

But I'm brooding over

These mood swings

Here's a metaphor;

My mood soars, then it falls

Like someone amputated

My mood's wings

Back and forth my feelings change

Ever shifting, never the same

Swing regular but strange

Like a pendulum, pendulum

Why is it so hard

To remember who you are

When you fall, when you stumble

When you're searching in the dark?

I am flying, then I drown

I am sinking to the ground

Up and down, spin around

All the sound it pulls

And pushes me and

Back and forth my feelings change

Ever shifting, never the same

Swing regular but strange

Like a pendulum, pendulum

Feelings, tearing me apart

Remember who you are

And then I move too far

Like a pendulum, pendulum