Swallowed in loose skin that was my armor when I was young and thin I'd spend those nights in sorrow at the river's edge with widows and broken men Passing a bottle around as the wall came down to flood my festered sins Sweep the dust up and pile it to the sky I'll be just fine Sweep the dust up and brush it to the side I'll be just fine Sweep the dust up from yesterday's one I swore you'd come and blister my tongue Sweep the dust up and pile it to the sky I'll be just fine Fell over in a heap and almost drowned within the sheets She spoke to me between her mangled teeth and sunk her hooks inside me like a seed And then came rushing out I can recall it now Yesterday's favorite one It almost mattered for a minute and then it didn't again It almost mattered for a minute and then it didn't But then again with all the things I said and all the things I did