Requiem For Mary

If these buildings were fields

I'd make sure they were ashes,

Set fire to the stubble

And piss on the flames.

Leave no tower unscathed,

Leave no street signs no lovers

And find me a place for

What's left of my name.

We climbed atop the fence

On the backs of a nation

And looked out on the city

Or of what it remained.

Just a pile of old shoes

Each abandoned by laces,

Like Cain with no brothers

Or his queen with no name.

Mary please don't go and

Get yourself all knocked up

My hands don't have the strength

To hold you up.

We've been traveling down this road

And now I'm afraid

Mine is forking south,

There's a lot of things we could say.

We danced through the night

Just to keep it together,

Hid around the fires

And shook off the blame.

Chalked it up to our youth

Just some reckless ambitions

To burn down the lord

We tried so hard to save.