Dendron

You cut your ties, felt better off
 Salutations to your son
 Awoke to find you heading out
 With your white collar undone
 You placed a bar, I played a game
 To see how low that I could go
 We develop mental pictures
 And we're following our fathers down the drain
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 Do you recall the imagery from when I drove you away?
 Through others' rose prescription lens
 Man, I'm sorry every day
 Because we intersect internally
 And then we take what we have and we run
 And it all starts to unravel
 Until we're less than we were carrying before
 I guess I expected more
 Wake me, wake me up
 (Pictures of you smiling in times
 When I just couldn't be around)
 Hold me, hold me up
 (Count my rings to see how many winters
 I've been stuck here under ground)
 Swore I'd not burn out
 (Digging through the memories
 That made you feel alive when you were young)
 You were right to doubt
 (Broken since foundations
 In the structures you were building came undone)
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 Part of your charm was the way you would push me from
 All of the traps that I just couldn't see
 Figures the one that was there to have tripped you up
 Would be the one that was set there by me
 Wish I was there to say goodbye when you went away
 Wish I was home, oh, but no place was there
 I cut off my arm at the bone in solidarity
 Capital teaches that there's less when you share
 And I felt the noose tighten up on your collar bone
 And I felt the gun in the small of your back
 Engraved in the stone by request and recurse of friends dead
 Is, "Tell me again that it's all in my head"