The Lake - Typhoon

I know this day in the summertime

My uncle’s lake on the fourth of July

I saw the cabin, my sister tried

To call like a loon with her hands kept tight

Up against her mouth

As the fireflies became visible in the failing summer light

A sparkler in my hand

I went after them as they went out into the night

I cornered them to a quiet place

Where the grass grew tall as it met the lake

It was a different bug, must have bit my leg

Though I never saw him

Back at home I cry in my room

My closest friend, the one that I confided to

I wanted her, but she wanted you

I was sick in bed, I could barely move

And then as my body turned against itself

I prayed for death that I come back to be anyone else

Be anyone else

Be anyone else

As the sickness formed within my cells

You never love me like the way you love anyone else

You dig a hole, dig it deep enough

The truth buries itself, it buries itself

And I, I disowned my

Own family

Oh, for love

Oh, for love

I was ashamed of my sister because

She lied to me when I wasn’t good enough

Sorry, sorry

You were the only thing I should have ever loved

Sorry, sorry