You sit and you sink
Sorrow swims in the drink
You hoped it would drown but it floats
In a moat that you made
To try to keep the grief away
Forgetting pleasure and pain weigh the same
When we underestimate the worst of us
We bevel the edge of our mind
Too dull to keep the grass cut
We could never look the snakes in the eye
Because I have left permanent shapes in the carpet
Outside your door
When opportunity knocks you ignore
I fear motion don't live here no more
Habits form in the smoke as cloudy eyes justify
That you don't only get high when you're low
Lethargic in the undertow, there's something so dangerous
When stubborn minds wish they were dead
When we romanticize the things we've lost
It's just rubble in rose colored light
If you're going to feed the wolf that's at the door
You can't hold the years anymore
Because I have left permanent shapes in the carpet
Outside your door
When opportunity knocks you ignore
I fear motion don't live here no more
There's a consequence to giving up
You end up begging for forgiveness from
The things you couldn't overcome
And it just lets your knees bleed
Bury the shame, but now the secret weighs the same
You carry a cross of which I'll never know the weight
So what could I have said?
Heaven didn't cast you out, it just let you down
To see the color in the world around is a choice now
So chew it up or spit it out
The pride inside your mouth
Because the hand you used to cast your doubt
Spread salt on common ground