Punching holes in verses
In crowded minds
I hear the indeliable echo
The plead for forgiveness
The sky is dark
Children are sleeping
Another day has passed us
We don\'t look the same
Sober and holding out our hands
I open the brain and take out what\'s wrong
The rhetoric you left behind
I don\'t really mind
Leaving the sun behind, going forward
I see misshapen tectonic
Hanging there, flowers in bloom
I don\'t know how to say it
But I feel for you
Lost in your eyes
Those black pits of sadness
I was looking for a father in you
Someone to come and show me the way
I was looking for the ocean view
But you could never play the part
When I laid down my heart
The last card
Drawn from pulverised flesh
Titanium in a drought
In dugouts tired of the wars
The chemical imbalance
Injections in arms
I wake to the red calling
The seeping red
Blades of grass in the sun
I\'ve disowned the rash
The slip of the mask
When you couldn\'t keep your mouth shut
Afloat in an hourglass of teardrops
Crushed under the foot of words
Nights of agonizing over mistakes
Which can\'t be undone
Smoking until the room is a cloud
Shifting
You talk too much but you never listen
You talk too much but you never listen enough
I thought you were luminescent
Me and you looking up at the stars
On a dark night
Where I buried memories in deep recesses
I left you to bleed in your misery
The destruction of the home
You didn\'t have to sit there, alone
Knowing there\'s nothing that can be done
I tried to save you from the fire
But you were insistent on it
You were insistent on it.