This cursing and striving and toiling A burden on our name Drug through the dirt and covered And buried in shame
Born from a womb of rebellion and illness You are the end of our days Severing Mother's cord And our own line
Camphor and sulphur filled my lungs In your former days I breathed vapors Of your innocence and your purity in sarsparilla twilight When time still bore weight Like iron on the sea floor
Red dress betrayal on an April night A deal made long before To our dismay and disproof Our brother, mute, dumb, and afflicted, Dug up your transgression Amber eyes turn away from us
I hate him for ruining you. I hate you for ruining me.
False confessions to cover your whoring around And father only half-believed We stood naked and nervous Covered in nothing but night
I will hold you in this horror, this hell As time is destroyed under my blood
Thievery in houses unkempt Deceit upon my dresser but not looking but at me in the dusty mirror Fabric of time torn under my life
I will hold you in this horror, this hell As I drown under summer twilight And inhale camphor burning my lungs
This letter will not be good until tomorrow And when He says rise my blue eyes will rise Through fathomed depths to see Glory