And My Father Left Forever

I would have given more
 I tied my children to a dying horse
 Stacked up against me
 The bodies heaved and stank upon their gore
 On the Earth lying still
 My father found me there ashamed and dying bare
 I had spent many years
 Destroying all around, took everything I found
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 With a dying fall, his voice left him
 It shouldn't be this way
 Do not hope for any other
 And he picked up my hand
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 I would have given more
 They brought me misery and they would not falter
 We poured down our ratchets
 Upon them day and night with brutal force and might
 Two dead men and absent
 There are no friends left to, to scribe the things we do
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 When I wake up
 I want to see you
 Brine me the life that is within you
 I charge myself off your body
 But in my arms, the darkness deepens
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 I'll raise my hand to break you
 If I don't, another will
 I'll raise my hand to break you
 If I don't, another will
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 And my father left forever
 It shouldn't be this way
 I sang long psalms of bitter verse
 But God had turned away
 Men are free at the blood of Christ
 I wish it was this way
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 Breathing is faster
 And breathing is deeper
 And falling no longer bothers me
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 Sinking is deeper, thinking is cleaner
 Your love, it flows away from me
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 The pool of Bethesda beckons me closer
 Put off that closing evil hour
 The Devil, he is very old indeed
 We sit with a few stories to tell