Brimstone & Vaseline - Parenthetical Girls

Did it ever cross your mind?

Does this come as some surprise

So you took us for a ride

Until the scales fell from my eyes

Put your petulance aside

And for a second, quell your pride

Jesus, have you lost your mind

Because all I lost was time

Wait

Watch me walk away

We fled down the fire escape

and you felt betrayed

A grown man of thirty-eight

Jesus, act your age

Death tucked between two legs

But never himself to blame

Had this ever crossed your mind?

How could this come as some surprise?

Semi-conscious all this time

and then scales fell from my eyes

Does it help you ease your mind?

Did this help you sleep at night?

Jesus, have you lost your mind?

Well, you’re well within your rights

Good grief

Thrown in stark relief

A car fire of vanities

Wonders never cease

And what’s left to slay the beast?

The Sword of Damocles?

Or hung from the Jesus piece

Made from his baby teeth?

Has this never crossed your mind

In all your spiteful little life?

Has it flashed before your eyes

and did you ever question why?

Look, I-I know this hurt your pride

But for the first time in your life

Put your petulance aside

and pull the blinders from your eyes

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