Lo - O'Brother

Lo, my eager eyes will know the truth come the day that it’s pouring from my

lifeless mouth

Lo, my eager eyes may swear to you that I never meant to shut you out

So we could laugh and sit and talk until I wanted to see what sort of knowledge

had grown from your forbidden seed

All I wanted was a single thought in my head that was mine

I tried to change what I’d done;

you still decided to leave us here to crook

the spines of these wretched bodies

Your garden reminds us of our fleeting lives

So why did you leave here, why did you leave here?

My head is but an image of you

So why did you leave here, why did you leave me?

To figure this all out

So I found my side in the absence of a point-of-view, cause our senseless minds

couldn’t hope to know

Now I take what’s mine, from the ground that I cultivate

And my mouth runs wild cause I want it all