Civilization

I need a peace that I have never known

I gave up looking in a memory

Liberation from a stolen crown

Each year gone I swear an enemy

Wild to think how I’ve been doing this

Getting by and also getting hit

When I look down I can see the rain

That pours out of me when I abstain

I can hear things but I cannot grasp the shape of them

I can see things and I don’t know what to make of them

Gifts of silence I long coveted

When I have them my fear smothers them

I need a tool I’ve never seen

Came to me inside a melody

Civilization comes to pin me down

You talk to me like I’m the enemy

Someday

When this is all over

We will go home

Someday

I will know better

Than to come home

Someday

things will be harder

Thank god I know

You’re in line waiting for medicine

I’m in line waiting for my five minutes

Everything has a cost

Without the true price, I am lost

I need a trace of all the minerals

That accumulate inside of me

Build a better boat to get away

You flock to me, we crush the enemy

I need a sleeper hit and even more

I need a flag with ransom on the line

Cut a hole and sink the whole thing down

A bed at sea that I can visit now