The Earth Will Turn

As the months move on, we hardly speak

Your hair turns to grey and that heart's growing tired and weak

I shoveled the dirt and made a grave for you to sleep in

Because you're dead to me so take your last breath

From the second I awoke to the earth

I was destined to grow without you and suffer

Selfish, reckless and a fiend

You chose that bastard over your family

How can we hope to pick up all the pieces

When you're destroying the ground we stand on?

Those drugs that you crave burned holes in

Your brain and paved the path for the life you hate

God damn you for leaving when we needed you

Hell bent on saving only yourself but that crippling defeat

And the cancer you breathe, it finally caught up to you

Now it's plain to see I don't need you in the same old way

I don't need you to be here at all

A thousand miles away from home

But you wouldn't even fucking know

Mother, tell me where you've been

I refuse to hear anymore of this deafening silence

Consider this bridge burned and

I'll consider you gone forever

You don't have the backbone

To face the one's you left for your dead

This is the last time we'll speak so listen closely

I tried to save you but you slipped away

I was once your son, now you have no part in what I've become

Stranger, you threw it all away for that lesser man

Now you must sleep in the bed you've made

No forgiveness for the things you say or the choices that took you away

No fighting for a second chance, the earth will turn and you'll be dead