Carbon Ribs - John Mark McMillan

A thousand pairs of fiery eyes

Burn like the serpent

Down the hwy 5

As the long amber tail

Of los angeles unwinds

I’ve got resurrection

Down inside my skin

But for all my revelating

I just can’t make sense

Of this gravity we’re in Cause I’m a dead man now

With a ghost who lives

Within the confines of These carbon ribs

And one day

When I’m free I will sit

The cripple at your table

The cripple by your side

A thousand miles

Of pain I’m sure

Led you to the threshold

Of my heart’s screen door

To tell me what it is I’m dying for

Gravity comes

Like a cold cold rain

To lead me to the rope again

But someone is standing

In my place

Cause I’m a dead man now

With a ghost who lives

Within the confines of These carbon ribs

And one day

When I’m free I will sit

The cripple at your table

The cripple by your side

And I sit beside you

And I sit beside you