We Don't Eat

If this is redemption, why do I bother at all?
 There's nothing to mention and nothing has changed
 So I'd rather be working for something than praying for the rain
 So I wander on 'til someone else is saved
 I moved to the coast, under a mountain
 Swam in the ocean, slept on my own
 At dawn, I would watch the sun cut ribbons through the bay
 I'd remember all the things my mother wrote
 That we don't eat until your father's at the table
 And we don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
 And never once has any man I've met been able to love
 So if I were you, I'd have a little trust
 
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 Two thousand years I've been in that water
 Two thousand years, sunk like a stone
 Desperately reaching for nets that the fishermen have thrown
 I'm tryin' to find a little bit of hope
 But me, I was holding all of my secrets soft and hid
 Pages were folded, then there was nothing at all
 So if in the future, I might need myself a saviour
 I'll remember what was written on that wall
 That we don't eat until your father's at the table
 And we don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
 And never once has any man I've met been able to love
 So if I were you, I'd have a little trust
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 But am I an honest man and true?
 Have I been good to you at all?
 Oh, I'm so tired of playing these games
 We'd just be running down
 The same old lines, the same old stories of
 Breathless trains and worn-down glories
 Houses burning, worlds that turn on their own
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 So, we don't eat until your father's at the table
 We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
 And never once has any man I've met been able to love
 So if I were you, my friend, learn to have just a little bit of trust