An Eye for an Eye for an Eye -

It’s in the status you once built

Or what it seeks to be

Oh, let’s agree to disagree

We’ll give eye for an eye for an eye

Though doomed to fail, you place your bet

You never know what you might get

You’ve done this a thousand times before

So open the same door once more

Cutting the flesh off your bones

Then find a new home once it’s gone

The love we need for wounds to heal

Get off your streets, the test is real

Less than a day, that’s all you’ve got

To set your sail and slam doors shut

Oh how I hate to see you go

But you’ll open the same door once more

Less than a day, that’s all you’ve got

So baby, run- no, please don’t stop

Into my arms, and don’t you cry, no

You give eye for an eye for an eye

Don’t you hate the people that you meet?

The way they look at you?

Every one judges, that’s not new

You keep walking the streets late at night

Against the grain, but not quite true

So make-up covers your tattoos

You hate your job from noon to nine

Pay for college and buy some good times

Ripping the flesh off your bones

Finding your hope once it’s gone

Then all we need for wounds to heal

Get off your streets, the test is real

Less than a day…

Less than a day, that’s all we need

Let’s see if, somehow, ends can meet

Then with freedom in your heart, you lie

And the facts fall apart

Less than a day, that’s all you’ve got

So pack your bags and slam doors shut

Less than a day, that was my goal

Your kisses cannot save my soul