To Make My Peace With You: Learning to Survive

Learning to Survive

Everyday
We are learning to survive
While slowly dying away
Everyday
We are learning to survive
While slowly dying away

The hands they fill the basin
We wash ourselves of it all
Everything’s a battle and long some have fought
But now they’re tuning out
And we are right behind them
The gauntlet not passed on
Left to rust in the basin

Everyday
We are learning to survive
While slowly dying away
Everyday
We are learning to survive
While slowly dying away

Life is all we have
So let me fall asleep between your legs
With a taste of death that’s flavor betrays
All for dislocation
To exist seems so dislodged
We shudder in the currents
Chasing shadows we call gods

Everyday
We are learning to survive
While slowly dying away
Everyday
We are learning to survive
By living off another day

I was in your corner
Until I saw you pull a punch for more the same
Dying away
Dying away
We’re dying away
Dying away
Dying away
Dying away




September 5, 2007 (revised September 7, 2007)