Red Thumb -

I’d been found out

So you thought I’d choke

But I’m full of lots of little tricks

Don’t underestimate the things I do and say

I’ve seen the tract

If anyone can best the fence, it’s me

Blood shed by my hand before dawn

-A red thumb tonight

Doubt says the sky will be falling down someday

Doubt says my heart is still full of hate

Doubt says that somehow I’ll always be one step behind

Maybe today’s the day doubt discriminates

And lays waste

What’s wrong with me?

My brain is a brimstone castle cracked at the seams

My filter’s all backed up—slips out

I can’t feel grief

My touch has gone rust

Now I’m a thriving disease

And I can’t be snuffed out

-Just keep growing and growing and growing

Blood shed by my hand before dawn

-A red thumb tonight

You dig and dig and dig and dig

You dig until you find

Whatever it is that you seek more than moral height

The garden’s full of flesh—a mess

The flowers are all sore

There is no hole that goes deeper than greed’s allure

Blood shed by my hand before dawn

-A red thumb tonight