A8

Drug deep in the summer, treatment in the winter
It doesn't get better, it just gets different
It doesn't get worse, it's always at it's worst
It just gets shrouded in new terms and more distant
Drug deep in the summer, just as deep in the winter
So deep in snow that the cold doesn't shiver
The hand and the stone doesn't quiver when he throws it
So cold it ain't' glass but it shatters just like it
And breaks into a million reflections to show
That niceness is just a guise and poison is just a guide
To the time when darkness fills space like light did
Off balance, fell to the challenge like love on it's flip side
And tightness of throat is coined as quiet
But silence can't disguise it
He's really a nice guy, he's just been bit by a bug
That made home beneath skin and ripped veins
So the flow couldn't nourish within he can't fight it
I tell him to get right
I show him the flame I harbor
And Point out the candle in his heart but he won't light it
I point like, how don't you see how bright it might get?
Look at me! Don't you want to experience what life is?
He falls to his knees
Or maybe he's just knee deep and I can't see the difference
I never asked him to pray to me but he says
Family is the highest power he's ever found righteous
I said I know the past is folded into skin
But the cells can be reborn and the lines can be redrawn
In ways that meet your needs bro
Why can't you look ahead and be excited?
I asked him to believe in the future and that
Green grass and flora is here for him
If he'd just get out the door
He'd see that sun would not ignore him
And he could grow from a bare stick to a lush forest
And he turned to me and said I'm a good sis
Turned trees to a nice spliff
Showed me arms with bare sleeves
So I could see just where the veins ripped
And told me I could try another day
But today is not a gift it's just, this.