I saw a wife unwed She held her baby's breath Cold summer red In warm three quarter beds We sold our daughters for rent She wrote letters we never read We spent all the money we saved for a son I'd keep it if we didn't marry so young
So I keep them away But we tithed a rolled up dollar in a golden ashtray Now I lie when I pray and when I say The difference between you and me Is there's no one missing from my family tree
Atleast that's what I tell myself And that nobody else should know the things I know Or what I might see
We fight like we sing Angel vs. angel Never on the same key We lie like we dream On our backs, trying to sleep Like it doesn't mean anything
So I keep them away But we tithed a rolled up dollar in a golden ashtray Now I lie when I pray and when I say The difference between you and me is lying with you comes so easily
Vein fed, rain wed
We sold our daughters for rent All of our money is spent We sink and recoil We cash out and spoil We almost played it off so well
I watched a wife unwed She held her baby's breath My feet dried in pavement Put up the down payment Again and again