Call It Quits

Vein fed, rain wed

I saw a wife unwed

She held her baby's breath

Cold summer red

In warm three quarter beds

We sold our daughters for rent

She wrote letters we never read

We spent all the money we saved for a son

I'd keep it if we didn't marry so young

So I keep them away

But we tithed a rolled up dollar in a golden ashtray

Now I lie when I pray and when I say

The difference between you and me

Is there's no one missing from my family tree

Atleast that's what I tell myself

And that nobody else should know the things I know

Or what I might see

We fight like we sing

Angel vs. angel

Never on the same key

We lie like we dream

On our backs, trying to sleep

Like it doesn't mean anything

So I keep them away

But we tithed a rolled up dollar in a golden ashtray

Now I lie when I pray and when I say

The difference between you and me is lying with you comes so easily

Vein fed, rain wed

We sold our daughters for rent

All of our money is spent

We sink and recoil

We cash out and spoil

We almost played it off so well

I watched a wife unwed

She held her baby's breath

My feet dried in pavement

Put up the down payment

Again and again