Sleeplessly Embracing

Needles underfoot as he stumbles out to the dock

Big toe feeling it through the hole in his sock

Car keys dangling absently from the lock

Of the Buick Regal parked to the side of the road block

Celly on the center console continued buzzing

Name on the screen Katrina parenthesis baby cousin

Dissolve Me on the speakers is playing into the nothing

He fixes his hair for no one his steady pace never rushing

Faded blue polo shirt missing a top button

Khakis with a coffee stain ripping near where he cuff 'em

Tongue on the roof of his cotton mouth is feeling rough

Got a pocket full of stones and a cup full of Robitussin

Too many stars to count and the moon is high up and blushing

Water is the calmest the breeze in the pine is rustling

And the piston in his temple relentless in how it's crushing

Everything but the sound of her crying screaming and cussing

The purple 'round her eye was deepening as he pleaded and backed away from the door

(Sleeplessly embracing)

Rage in a bottle want to throw it out to sea

(Sleeplessly embracing)

Never seen the ocean so this lake will have to do

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Pumping his brakes to the sound of the beat

(Sleeplessly embracing)

Leave the tarnished ring with a note inside of a shoe

It's all fucked up now

Shit (shit), Katrina pushes send again

Same thing, ring and right into the voice messaging

Tick tick tick tick (tick tick tick tick)

Left blinker clicks fast from the burnt out taillight

Open toe on the gas

Heater on her face to compensate for the chill

Plastic on the passenger window thunders at will

New tattoo on the neck is itching but "Dang that's ill"

Is what Snake had said to her while she re-ing up on her pills

Pop a couple now while she driving around the woods

Knew from the beginning that marriage would be no good

Told him not to fall for the first available hottie

But she knew he would, she knew him better than anybody

He'd always take the first, well technically the second

If you count the time he slipped into her room when she was seven

And he told her that he loved her and everything was okay

That was just a week before they took her mother away

She knows that he's poison but he was the only one who stayed when she needed it most

(Sleeplessly embracing)

Dress up like a princess and come out to the party

(Sleeplessly embracing)

Tired of the burning so this numb will have to do

(Sleeplessly embracing)

A little bit of dirt never hurt nobody

(Sleeplessly embracing)

Always protect the thing that you know is true

It's all fucked up now

Shoes taken off and placed upon the bank

Crickets in the distance are dissonant and he brakes

He stop for just a minute reflecting on all the days

The joy before he slipped back into his sinister ways

How well could he justify every choice that he made

How little control a little girl could ever take

How little he cared in the moment if she would wake

Hopefully she was so little she'd not remember the ache

His toe is in the water it's ice, it's codeine

It's dimming all the stars and it's muffling all the screams

It's now up to his waist and he wading into the dream

His pulse is racing causing the surface tension to steam

The water at his chest his lungs fight and collapse

The frogs see it best he thinks he starts to laugh

The water at his eyelids now and he's 'bout to pass out

She could be rid of him now at last

The note he left read, "please never tell her, love James"

(Sleeplessly embracing)

The ripples disappear and there's nothing left to show

(Sleeplessly embracing)

Never been concluded so the end will have to do

(Sleeplessly embracing)

High not low and away we go

(Sleeplessly embracing)

Tomorrow it'll all be a perfect shade of blue

(Sleeplessly embracing)

It's all fucked up now

(Sleeplessly embracing)

It's all fucked up now

(Sleeplessly embracing)

It's all fucked up now

(Sleeplessly embracing)

It's all fucked up now