I Love You, I’m Sorry, Please Help Me, Thank You

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me, Thanks"

Some bumper sticker wisdom while you're walking the plank

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me, Thanks"

The illusion of protection in the face of the tank

You were a student

You were a soldier

You were a symbol

They made you a martyr

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me, Thank You"

When the nationalist demagogues eat the desperately confused

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me, Thank You"

When we're so far past civility it feels useless to argue

But love isn't passive

A trick or a tactic

It's radical action

So, go let 'em have it

When I opened my perspective from my fear of the world

To the daughter I was trying to raise

With the total sum of everything asleep in my lap

I could hear I was the one in my way

You said "Life is sweet

But my brain's got teeth"

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me, Thank You"

You said, "Acceptance and Forgiveness", I said, "Nobody asked you"

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me"

I have to drop it sometime, but I hate that I have to

Oh, but it saved me

Oh, but it changed me

Shaped and remade me

Oh, what it gave me

I was burned out on obsessing at the end of the world

And the daughter I was helping to raise

With the total sum of everything awake in my lap

I could hear what you were trying to say

You said "Life is sweet

But my brain's got teeth

You said "Life is sweet

But my brain's got teeth"

You said "Life is sweet

If I let it be"

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me, Thanks"

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me, Thanks"

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me, Thanks"

"I Love You, I'm Sorry, Please Help Me, Thanks"