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We're killing our babies
We're drugging our daughters We're sickening our sons There's poison in the water Pacing up and down the foyer Weak confused not herself Bridging thoughts from before Her stumble down the wooded plot I let her drink from which she waded Ran to the bank but she didn't go in It's like she knew we didn't see it Cascading waves all brimming with sin Shaking she began to fall Chased by a grizzly ready to maul Without strength can't move your legs Like a scream you dream to break We're killing our babies We're drugging our daughters We're sickening our sons There's poison in the water. It's on our shoulders this deathly struggle Drunk on pesticides genetics When you mess with natural orders She bites you back with razor sharp fangs She drinks the blood you spill to get richer and feigns her empathy downstream with death water We're killing all our sons and daughters There's poison in the water There's poison in the water There's poison in the water Emptied and filled with dusty masks
Bringing in unfiltered baskets Full of all the screams we’ve worn Capos fly over frets worn bare Over which was held a stare The tidings faith and feasts so true Brought us together in song in you The songs they echoed like cavern’s wishes Spoken words and strange predictions Oftentimes with goosebumps plenty On one leg or maybe two The blues held true in many an eye Alongside hope and community too These days they flew like a falcon in flight Swooping in and out of our hectic lives Although the time was miserably short Our brothers and sisters learned a thing or two We brought our gifts to one another Shared our moments we put to song Not long ago I didn’t feel I had a voice But the messages there begot my choice To choose my chosen words a plenty and put them on the parchment To speak those words on parchment’s surface To dig below our imagined surfaces To scream out loud and cry happy tears Of life of love on the canvas above |
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