Damn if you do, damned if you don't

How can I breath
When they choke me
Stifle my creativity
Everyone apparently except me
Knows what I need

Where I should go
Who I should hold
Opinions spew out their mouths
Like water over Niagara falls

Who am I to say their wrong
Who are they to claim their right

Another sleepless night in Alabama
All I'm missing is Tom hanks
Since rain here
Doesn't fall as it does in Seattle
Their thoughts trample
Over my mind Like scared cattle

How can I be afraid?
When I'm so ready to fight
Prepared to abandon
This post prolific life
Another grandeur plight
In my simple life

I've been counted out
Enough times
That I've lost count

You hate me
Yet you've never met me
The grammatical errors
Will stop them from buying
I sold more on my last book
Then I did on this one
Does that mean I wasn't as hungry
Sobriety has stopped my creativity
Yeah right
I'm working harder then before
Paving the way
For the rest of me