Winter Takes All - Common Market

This ain’t no place for a man of faith

I gamble it all away, tumble into fall abased and ablaze

Can’t fault or blame fam, they parade arrays of aid and praise

Saints patronized by the razor blade

Dismayed and fazed and maybe I assay the prize

Stay alive or prepared — scared ain’t no way to die

Though if my ache could be assuaged through sin

I’ll make it bleed fate, racing to the gate pleading «take me in,» I’m

Down, unable to prevail unassisted

Will the tempest hail another victim in cyclical rhythm?

Please

Break it, ‘cause honestly the lie «I try tirelessly» is cowardice

Powerless am I to fight this avarice, I’m

Down, to give over control, the soul’s solely yours

Deal and dispose, but keep it real close but don’t

Break it, ‘cause they gon' take it hard if I don’t make it through

And some are reaching for reason to hate you

Time and time again I’ve been told

That a focus on the flaws of man’s off-center ten-fold

Stricken with the winter cold, sipping the burning hot

A spill will blister, learn not to leave skin exposed

Stitch it up and pray the kid recover nice

And I might have if not for daddy’s bad advice

He’s the type to fight God but not a vice

Grip the heater twice as hard — it’s this reality I battle nightly

Even in sleep it seems flight’s unattainable

Upon waking the facial expression deigns a satiable exchange

Weather shades drawn, either side a storm rage on

Patiently the fawn awaits the day the rain’s gone

In my defense I claim it’s obvious I’m not him

Probably it’s the toxin — sorry it’s a lot been unresolved

Sick since six, seen ‘em revolve around a small town

Clique, call it quits — bring all them walls

Down, finally I’ma defeat the rival

With a rifle, writing my epistle titled «try cycle,» I

Break it, so never they perpetuate the malady

Abashedly accommodate mortality, undoubtedly I’m

Down, to reconsider, I’ll stay if you can make a promise though

Please keep it real close and don’t

Break it

I’m warning not strong enough to take it now

And I’m investigating other ways out

We’ll rebuild what the bottle destroyed

I’m downhill standing still at the bottom of Roy

Where the pass over 5 look alive much as anything

Cling to the side and any sign of your memory

My creative liberty is tempting me to hasten to the point of penance

We could be rejoined if you employ forgiveness

Sell it all, tell ‘em hell is nothing but a cell wall

I’ma soar even as the shell… fall…

Down, shed not a tear for my exodus

I’m here in the protectorate, the fear I held was delicate, to

Break it, simply took a leap of faith and virtue

Serve through, I never meant to hurt you, for certain I’ll be

Down, to revisit the dearest of my kinfolk

Hold the spirit near, keep it real close but don’t

Break it, the creed is all we got until we meet again

I pray you gon' make it through the season