Whalebones - Man Man

He found a curse around his neck

Like a yoke;

he knows he’ll never forget

The way she cut through his bed

Like a snake would bite through a cape of flesh

But he holds her

Though she’s broken

Swears he don’t care where she’s been

He’s tired

Of being human

Wears her close to the bone as though

She were his own skin

Shoots from the heart instead of the head

His mouth and his words, they rarely connect

He looks to the past and where his tongue’s tread

And he knows he’s meant the opposite

But she holds him

Like an infant

Though it breaks her in half

To know he’ll wake like a man

Sold on cold indifference

When he reaches for her, she’s gone

She slips like the wind through blackened sails, but

Who are we to love at all?

I hope you don’t mind

If I hang all of my hopes

I hang all of my hopes on this time

Although I’ve been warned

I’ll probably get burned

I’d rather get burned

Than to not try

I hope you don’t mind

If I hang all of my hopes

I hang all of my hopes on this time

'cause you won’t

Let it go