I Never Knew The Sound - Take One Car

This is not together living.

My benefit at your expense.

I was just some fair

weather

Friend who fled for shelter as the storm set in

My memory of how it went, was a memory skewed to my defense.

I took more and

more from you until I begged and borrowed all that I could get

Damn my insatiable hunger.

I ate myself sick before I was fed.

It seems I had

no clue of all

I’d had taken until it came time for me to pay my debt

As the blood of every minute pours through the

Arteries of years.

I could barely hear you here through a life now reproduced

Like the burnt leaves of autumn, a world fades away.

I couldn’t keep you here

Even though I begged you to stay.

So, why not leave it for what it is

Why dig past the quills for the rodent within

Why not leave everything that hurts you too much

Alone to die in some hospital bed

This still deserves a whisper, a proclamation from the roofs, won’t god divide

the

Water, or speak another truth.

My words are slipping from me, I cannot make a

sound

As that ever muffled drumming meets the quiet of the ground

March 31st or was it april 04th, I guess the date is

Inconsequential, but I know now for sure, that i’d taken you for granted for

far too

Long, and everyone takes everything for granted until it’s gone

And I concede that some are far worse off than me

As I sit here with my bounty and healthy family

Ignoring phone calls from good friends I don’t have time for these days

And I lock the doors, and pull the shutters, and draw the shades

And I beg and borrow and never return, and I feed and siphon and i’m never

going to

Learn, that you were none of my concern.

Beg and borrow and never return, and I

Feed and siphon and i’m never going to learn, that i’m the only one who is of

any of my

Concern, and i’ll wear my guilt like an albatross around my neck