Benediction - Joshua James

Busted wire and the tattered tongue

Songs she wrote but she never sung

Quiet eve of another year

She’ll soon forget

Her blackened lungs from the cigarettes

Her mother smoke' when her father left

She sings a song in a sad attempt

To change her mind

And she said «'n' I have hope for others

Father, I have given up

'Cause I have hope for others

Father, I I have given up»

Quart' to ten in the room below

Busted wares suppose they’ll need to know

Close her eyes and hums a song

That made her smile

Grabs a note and reads aloud

«The passion new’d make a mother proud

I miss you so, it seems we all much going on»

Cause she wrote «I have hope for others

But Mother, I must go alone

Yes, I have hope for others

Mother, I-I have given up.»

Well I’ve, I’ve given up

Well I, I, I, I have given up

Yeah, I’ve given up

My love, my God, I’ve given up

In my heart, in my heart, in my heart

In my heart, in my heart, in my heart

I have, I have given up

In my heart, in my heart, in my heart

In my heart, in my heart, In my heart

I have, I have given up