Fifteen

Through dark passages and deathly holes

Out came a timid mouse

It got torn in a jaw by the whitest blades

In my arms, I carried it slow

From the ground it turned and looked at me

As if to say, 'please don't go'

But I turned and off I walked

To the safety of my home

I still wonder if it screamed

'I'm down here in the cold'

Down here in the cold

I'm down here in the cold

Down here in the cold

When I was 15 I pushed my dad to the floor

Only I know how much I think of it still

He'd provided the same food and warmth

That the mouse sought all along

Now it's me that lays here in the cold

With my ghosts 5000 days old

Now I lay in the cold

Here In the cold

Here I lay in the cold

Here In the cold

It's hard to live with this pain that we know

It'd be easy to crawl into bed

And be bones