Let Me Go - Mark Eitzel

My clothes are ripped and torn

I keep falling on my knee

Like a butterfly to chloroform

Praying to be free

The sidewalk gets high off my blood

It chews and chews it like gum

Without hunger, without love

Even after the flavor’s gone

Threw all my change in the oceans

Worn-out Dixie cup

To take my prayer up to the mountain

Please don’t trip me up

Just let me go

Once I had a house made of stone

I lived high above the dirt

Now I stumble down a road of bone

From those who could not be hurt

Threw my fortune at the feet

Of the beautiful old soak

All he does is drink and eat

Every word and every note

Let them go

Throw away all you have

For the dream that takes you down

All your trash, all your cash

For the dream that takes you down

There’s nothing behind the disguise

But untouchable grace

You think the pretty picture

Wears your pretty face

Just let it go