Defeated Lips -

And then it was night

Black waves of depression

Rolling and crashing over you

Like a hail storm made of sharpened knives

Can you see the gaps between my fingers

It’s running and leaking through my hands

The time, this day, this week, this year

The thoughts and hopes and ends I fear

The job, the house, the kids and wife

The pain and struggle of being alive

Are we alive?

are we there yet?

There is a difference

That’s always been there

Your and me between the gasping

And the breathing

Between the anxious

And the fulfilling

Are we fulfilling it?

Are we there yet?

So hold my breath

And I hold yours

Choke my words and cut my throat

When we light the torch and run

Do we ever consider

That we won’t find our way back?

As soon as the fire fades

We will have nothing left

To ignite this life again and bring the fire back

(the calm or the dead

An arm for a leg

The cold or the cancer

The stiff and the dancers)

The good or the bad

Never done wrong and never went back

Stayed at the place, where they once met

Home is home is home