War Machine - DM Stith

Don’t ask questions to which you know the answer

Am I in trouble?

Am I in trouble?

Don’t ask questions to which you know the answer

What did I do wrong?

What did I do wrong?

Despite all my feints and dodges

He will read me clean

He will read me clean

Don’t ask questions to which you know the answers

And certainly we bruise what we love

And love is prescient to the surrender of

When you struck me

When you bore down

When you ignored me

But you kept me around

I held it back

I slapped my wrist

I nearly said it

I nearly said it

I nearly said it

I nearly said it

I nearly said it

I nearly said it

I nearly said it

Why’d you hurt me?

I am a pilot of precision writing red

A red-tongued snake licking the words formally prescribed to the page

A shining perfect conductive conduit, message sent just as received

Perhaps a little cold but there it is

I am a war machine

And any act in my defense could only ever seem to be

A flash of armour in the field, an act of desperate jealousy

And you would sell me off as soon as it was easy

As if I wasn’t there to please, as if I wasn’t on my knees

As if I’m only worth the parts, a stack of money and a breeze

And you know well that I could say as much if I was pressed to plea

It was only love

It was only love

It was only love

It was only love

It was only love

It was only love

It was only love

Amazing Grace

I forgot my name

What’s erased

Will remain

Amazing Grace

I forgot my name

What’s erased

Will remain

Amazing Grace

I forgot my name

What’s erased

Will remain

(I am a pilot of precision writing red

A red-tongued snake licking the words formally prescribed to the page

A shining perfect conductive conduit, message sent just as received

Perhaps a little cold but there it is

I am a war machine)

Amazing Grace

I forgot my name

What’s erased

Will remain

(I am a pilot of precision writing red

A red-tongued snake licking the words formally prescribed to the page

A shining perfect conductive conduit, message sent just as received

Perhaps a little cold but there it is

I am a war machine)