Been picking up sticks to burn her enemies down I do what I can for her I slaughtered her a cow and I'm a vegetarian That's not man enough for her, not bloody enough I used my chemistry sk**s to bake her every pill she could swallow She prayed to god and she called me a sinner, science isn't the way to win her She gave me every disease under the sun before she ran for another town My body reacts to her How bodies react to her She's facing due north when she's facing due east She's got parking violations dating back to '63 She's got a ladder by the stairs She uses it to sharpen her teeth We fear for our lives around her We fear for our lives The demons are alive in her head that's why we have to make sense of every tiny word that she says She stole my twenties from me My face has never looked so thin I hide behind facial hair but people aren't stupid, they can see what I'm doing I'm trying to pretend I won this war between my brain and her brawn But this is a war I won't be coming home from Now I'm lying through my teeth again It's a trait she taught me well If truth had been told from the start I'd have never seen hell Will someone get a message to my father and say "Dad I won't be coming home I'm gonna take this all the way" My kids will understand someday My kids will understand someday