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This is Not an Exit
02:04
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We ended just like we began
Unexpected and full of surprises
Still I remembered to lock the door
Behind me when I left
Because I know that’s what you would have wanted
I was baptized in your drunken piss stains
That decorate my sleep
And no matter how hard I scrub I can’t
Wash myself clean
Our love was like the way I’d sweat
When I slept at your place:
An easy fix
All you had to do was change your sheets
And now we’re like the burns on my knees
From living room floor offerings
Christ, the bleeding only stops
If I don’t pick the scabs
I thought you’d be more than
Just another set of curses
For me to spit out of my mouth
Babe, we never had a prayer
I heard some say that god is love
I heard some say that love is dead
Maybe Hell is beautiful people
But the devil’s in the ugly details
We ended just like we began:
Honest as the piss, sweat, blood and spit
I should’ve known better than
To place my faith in body fluids
I couldn’t know better in the biblical sense
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Psalm 38:9
02:06
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I watched a man die
And where was God
When he took that big, final breath?
I stared at his face
To find what was left
I’ve watched a man dying
And I don’t know which is worse
When I look into his eyes
I see God
I see lies
It’s not fair, I know
There is sorrow where the laughter grows
Two branches of the same tree
One for you and one for me
You taught me to pray
Now I’m hoping for a quick end
My model for God
Always rubbing my nose in the stains of death
My father told me
“Son, you can’t kill time.
But time will surely kill you.”
And then he drank down
All his prayers by the gallon
Each one went unanswered
Each one
I swore I wouldn’t be like you
What a tired cliché
My knuckles ripped from
Beating myself up
The fruit didn’t fall so far from the tree
I’m falling apart
I can’t go on like this
When I see nothing behind your eyes
I know I’m watching as the last of God dies
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