We grew like a tree into a fence Barbed wire buried under bark and wood In flesh and bone we find our homes Together we’ll strip the world of all its good
I’d give until I starved to death She’d take until the roots were gone And we’d pull each other down And we’d sink into it going wrong
When the wind would blow We’d cut each other deep Regrets would overflow We’d **** and fall asleep
Branches hurled down at the fence As fences do good neighbors make Each new gust stirred up the dust Neither knew who’d be the first to break
wind kept blowing, tree kept creaking I reached for poison and fell in Cowardly flight into that night She wept and kept herself to him
It went out in one final flourish The last summer for blossoming The rot set in, the axes came This was the end of everything.
Feb, 14th 2010 (dedicated to my high school sweetheart and the way we tore each other apart)