Pink Slip

This town ain’t big enough for both of us,

So don’t sleep on the things that my hands have done

The flora and the fire keep lighting up the distance

Careful with your mouth don’t let it run

Out of sight, out of mind

Dug my heels into the earth

It was safe, it was mine, but this is where the way turns

Take it while you get it, toss this and forget it

As you swallow your seat and son

You’re plagued with pride of fathers

Long since dead behind you

Careful with your feet don’t let them run

To question yourself the cursed will stay away

You can camouflage, you can lock up and you can stow away.

But it is to question one’s self in a hideout

To leave the cover, the cursed will stay away

And in my hard heart I tried to block out

And to blot out, and obstruct the clouds.

But the shroud, the bell, the blanket

And the envelope will eclipse them now

Forget what you left, this part is never easy

Standing where the water meets the shore you feel the sun

Touch your face and leave its mark with nowhere left to run

To hide your shaking hands and words that swore this was the day.

You never feel as weak as when the answers go away

I was caught in the current, it’s a lesson and I’ve learned it

The teacher left scars on our fists

I’m the worst, I’m the worst, just please leave me here

There’s pain we never speak of, second guess the ones that we love

And the last thing you want is for your last words to sound so scared,

But you find yourself here, alone and scared

Will they leave you here, will you leave me here

The best part of that

Is I want it back

The best things to say

I want to say

That all this time I was wrong

The water’s deep

As they find their sleep

And I begged for less

But I second guessed

That you would come

After me

(From the hands of my mother to the hands of a girl

From the hands of my mother to the hands of the world

From the hands of my mother to the hands I see before me

Could I part this deep

I never wanted to say but I had to

And I’ll take your blame but it was always you

We left after morning as you called to your name)

The past still waits

It’s the pain we never speak of

To catch my eye,

Second guess the ones that we love

And I never stopped

All the words and our confessions

To question

I never thought that I should question

To question why