Daughters

Race, rabbit heart race

Red wine coursed through vindictive veins

Red river, run

Help me forget what I have done

And what I’ve yet to do,

Everyone I’ll hurt when I’ve seen this through

If I can’t cater to the likes of you

Who’re you to dispute armour of valid truth

Seven doors, curtain call

Half way around the world I’ve lost it all

Each inhibition, all prohibition

Thrown to the wind as a nation listens

With their ears to the ground

Coveting the forfeit of a crown

That doesn’t exist

With their ears to the ground

If you speak of a demon now,

It appears.

All I’ve ever wanted was to believe

Before my family’s eyes are torn from me

I’m finding it hard to believe

In the things I cannot see

(Like I used to) [2x]

Like I did

Most days I’m tracking back in torment

When I remember when

Our innocence quelled ignorance

A peripheral indifference

Now it’s ‘fuck that, you made your bed’

You think I don’t regret what I did to them?

I can’t take it back and I won’t pretend

But I’m man enough to have dropped her hands

Like I’d said.

All I’ve ever wanted was to believe

Before my family’s eyes are torn from me

I’m finding it hard to believe

In the things I cannot see

(Like I used to)x3, like I

I know I fucked up but I was only a kid,

I was too short sighted to see what I did

I destroyed what was left of the little you had

And now nothing can bring it back