I flew home to that city of ghosts from years prior,
The walls in every room glared at me as if I was some broken thing,
I was never broken, merely trying to fix myself,
So I drove all night, passed streets where I once stumbled home,
Back when my winters were a fistful of pills
and a bottle in my back pocket,
Back to those years where the demon inside burned like the liquor,
And he screamed his song from within my ribcage,

I remembered all the memories I laid to rest,
They left postcards in the mailbox of my childhood home,
I wished to go back to the heat of the south,
Where my body would sweat every time I moved,
And all the things inside me past due would float into the air,
I was happiest there,
So I’ll leave the corpse of my younger years up in Baltimore
And fly home to Baton Rouge

Oh land of mine, harvest my labors
Lay waste to the sorrows of the spring
When the storms held heavy
And the roots of my grandfather unearthed,

Oh land of mine, teach me patience
How the sky nurtures the infant soil
Before the stalks knew to rise in thanks,

Oh land of mine, hold me gently
When the hour of my end comes near
May my body rest in the earth I loved
And let wild flowers bloom above my casket.

I'll write my sweetest words
My most heartfelt letters
All to the silence in the room
I am tired of bleeding this body
And playing my heart strings
To an empty audience
I'm still hurting somewhere
And my body ain't bleeding
Those love letters no more

We drove across the country
Back to that coast you call home
Through the plains where
The sky seems to stretch forever
And the stars shine like diamonds
We traversed through cities of machines
All pumping that liquid gold
To the men in suits who hold too much
Crossing bridges over waters who's
Names I am not familiar with
Back to your small town by the seaside
Where we drank till the sun came up
And the breeze kissed my skin
As if we were two old lovers who found themselves once more

Your sky scraper legs
Lead to the heavens
Some paradise in my eyes
I'll sing you songs of tomorrow
I'd love you like the beginning
You sleep to my dreams
The sounds of my lungs
How we hold this dear
This such fragile thing between us

Your body is an addiction
I crave your touch like a high
Find time to caress my veins
And make a grave of my insides