How I remember
I must have been five years old
Crying my face raw
Sick and stumbling through the cold
"Mom I don't wanna die"
She took me by the shoulder
And said "Tyler, don't worry
You've got your whole life ahead of you"
All I had lived for
Was taken by the breeze
Delphic Apollo
Don't you cry for me
For I come from western Maryland
With a shotgun on my knee
Would you wake up?
It's a celebration all because
You never know how short it might feel
And everyone wants to try again
Everyone wants to lie again
Everyone wants to cry again
How did it happen?
Damned if I know anything
All my own faults
Damned if they meant everything
It weighs me down
It makes the ground feel that much heavier upon me
And will I wake up in a revelation
With the saints?
Or will I fade or slip right away?
And I feel the water in the lining
And I feel the darkness on my skin
And I feel the storm take down my headstone
And I feel the burden of my sins