Alan Jones Wins

one second is all it takes

to lose it all in so many ways

two rotten kids in one rotten world

survived by love and suffering

and given hollow bones on their plates

that they take

we're empty stomaches starved too late

and so it goes

what our misery brings to me

i'm the mistake you thought would go away

but i'm a fool to think that we would recover from

another emergency.

two hearts held hostage

on hospital beds

one second is all it takes

to lose it all in so many ways

for now i'll ignore my pains

because we grow up

to forget

to save our graces for rainy days

we're all falling through the cracks

and slipping soundly

here's a hand

to let go

we can't distinguish home from home

so how does this end for us

when you've already given up?

on all the times we felt alive

where i punned and played on words

as you let my lines

fall short of what i meant

how does our tragedy end?

for now i'll ignore my pains

because we grow up to forget

to save our graces for rainy days

we're all falling through the cracks

and slipping soundly

here's a hand to let go

we can't distinguish home from home

so how does this end for us?

this city slept safe in sheets.

while we laid our heads with our enemies

we chose to live

for ourselves

we chose to live

for no one else

we chose to live

though we're barely breathing

i chose to live

where i take my beatings.