Bad books

With my dominant hand, I steer the ship towards the future With my eyes full of sand, I make a myth of the mess Through desert blinders and cataracts, grab the battle axe let the faith outfox the fear...

Draw your five short breaths and pretend it's meditation To shower head higher, power give me patience Make me nobody's robot, make me nobody's slaughtered lamb Deliver me from evil and open me as...

Petit mort, I'm asking for an answer Petit mort, you sang until you slept Petit mort, you took yourself, you bastard Petit mort, now sleeping's all that's left You took apart the sympathetic angle You...

(Second half right?) We started a fire That was never supposed To burn out You started a band That was cool for a while But it turned pretty bland I started a fight With the neighbor next door And his...

My love has gone away Packed up her bags and then boarded that plane And I guess that the time I figured you'd wait Teary face, leaky breath, a bitter taste Tripped out for 600 years Who would have...

When you're with another man inside another home Do you adapt to the walls? Do you adapt to the walls? I found the newspaper thumbin' my hands through Doing another dance, doing what I could When I...

Can't find the forest, too stuck on trees. but now you're invested, so I'm left pretending, its all I can see I asked for a window to open my cell you came as kaleidoscopes climbing, colliding you...

I felt like somebody somewhere could see My dad and Russell running through the woods of lost creek Oh it's a shame Jessica never got clean, You know the last time I saw her was honestly awful for me...

I arrived with no shoes Without a name, without a use I tried to talk it out of you Just because I found it's best, To keep it quiet and keep it still You sat without your clothes Without a name,...

We slept for close to seven hours all the way to your dad's basket case. I didn't catch the final score so I prayed that we'd sink a few more. And I didn't mind and you didn't seem to mind about me,...