Lungs - Steve Earle

Now won’t you lend your lungs to me?

Mine are collapsing

Plant my feet and bitterly breathe up the time that’s passing

Breath I take and breath I give, pray the day ain’t poison

Stand among the ones that live in lonely indecision

My fingers walked the darkness down, mind is on the midnight

Gather up the gold you’ve found, you fool it’s only moonlight

If you try to take it home your hands will turn to butter

You better leave this dream alone try to find another

Salvation sat and crossed herself and called the devil partner

Wisdom burned upon a shelf, who’ll kill the raging cancer

Seal the river at it’s mouth, take the water’s prisoner

Fill the sky with screams and cries, bathe in fiery answers

Jesus was an only son and love His only concept

Strangers cry in foreign tongues and dirty up the doorstep

And I for one and you for two ain’t got the time for outside

Just keep your injured looks to you, we’ll tell the world we tried