The Raw And Searing Flesh

The Raw And Searing Flesh

Lawrence Arms (The)
(album: The Greatest Story Ever Told)

i never want to see you
in the raw and searing flesh
i don´t ever want to hear you
singing softly to the dead
i never want to feel your skin
running warm along my side
i don´t ever want to sink that way again
it would be easier to die
to die

i´m tending the pyres of my frustrations
burning leaves on buried dreams
kneeling in to rake the ashes
i´m embering. you´re smoldered out.
my hands are free,
my lungs are proud
your forgiveness is a fading fiction
your forgiveness is a fading fiction
these flames have never burned so high
i won´t be staring in your eyes

i´m trying hard not to remember
the way the smoke drifts through the air
we´ll all be dead come november
four months out of every year
every year
(every year)

i won´t be staring in your eyes
every year