indifference isn't bred but i feel it in my bones
three decades feels like ninety and this body is an unfamiliar home
i laid down my family name, gave its corpse and unmarked grave
and i lay under the new one like a snake in the summer sun
cause my father's blood is the noose i cannot shake
it is toxic like his love
and i never had a little brother to pay his debts
but i've been one
open fields and skies going on for days
i will open my mouth wide, and swallow my mistakes
and there's no train you can catch to run from this pain
some things will find a home within yr bones
and that's where they'll stay
and my mother's blood is the river i will drown in
with cement shoes on
and i only know the little brother always runs first
cause i was one
and i only know the little brother always runs first
cause i was one
credits
from Flowering of Youth,
released April 5, 2019
recorded/mixed at the Kaleidoscope
Lancaster, PA
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