when were you cut off
when did you pass into this world
your mother's womb is where all
warmth + what's home once swirled
when did you leave
you found this unique misery
when did existence
become your responsibility
taking life too serious
can tie you up in knots and there you'll be
misshapen person
never learn to loosen up
+ if the truth compels you blindly
you're not seeing anything
caught up in yourself you can't tell
gospel from muffled screams

I've got an aunt named Ruth
she's got a dog named Riley
a golden labrador retriever
she raided as a puppy
my aunt Ruth
she never got married
my aunt Ruth
she always looks so happy
whenever she's around
she tell me she's so proud of me
when I was learning how to drown
she taught me how to breathe
she loves that dog
she loves until she's weak
now Riley knows no pain
but he won't listen to her speak

*the things you love will kill you
but you're living anyway
so do everything you can do
thank the world + all it's grace, for we are
born of every evil man, the kings of old
+ every evil race
you are the sun's posterity, hail his majesty
put a smile on your face

there are woods near my dad's old house
that I used to call my home
they taught me how to love myself
that everything green must at some point be nutured + grown
I stared at my hands, laughed at the fact of how
anything here could be owned
just hands, I can't find the priviledge to
pillage this beautiful land
strength gives us hope, hope gives us strength
+ we kill what we don't understand
god don't exist, but we're all sacred sons screaming
why not just give love a chance
the burden of man's not the power, the drugs or the money
how each passing hours the same
the burdens yourself, + dreams of fear
by a different name

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