you drag your tigerâs paw across
your chapped & cracking lips,
and open up a crimson slur
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you spread each time you kiss.
the broken boy you bargain with
to turn back to the man
that you fell in love with once
but never saw again.
is he in there? do you think he drowned to death?
well it s his decision to show his face again.
you grind your tired teeth
& curse the day that you were born
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to a sunken line of Irish wives a million miles long,
devoted to the suffering they re certain they deserve.
a husbandâs a cross to bear,
worry lines & a silver string of hair
come too early, come to steal your sainted youth..
well it s your decision to stay or else to move.
& I m not a man of faith, no gospel oak for me,
but you wear a crucifix to broadcast your beliefs,
and the god I ve read about can t go where he s not asked to go.
so you ve got a choice to make:
shut him out, save yourself, or sit and wait.
but you re waiting on a man who will not move.
so you must move for him and do what he can t do.
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cause itâs worth it, thatâs the one life you can change,
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and I m sorry sister, but it has to end this way.
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yea, itâs scary sister, but tomorrowâs just too late.
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so stand up sister,
thereâs an albatross to shake.
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