The Light Despondent - Biting Elbows

He took his final breath

I hear it to this day

There’s no redemption

And the punishment’s delayed

The only reaction that I face

Is hidden well behind my face

A trace surely can

Lead the law right to their man

Well, hurry up

I did not betray no shock

I heard the door behind me lock

And I was now held hostage to

A hostile scene and I wasn’t sure what to do

But I knew I had to get away

The light despondent falls upon it’s prey

And I put a foreign object in his neck

And I was so sure by now I would be a suspect

I fear this and it feeds on me

My self-defense catastrophe

It sees my kids grow

It tells me they will have to one day know…

I used to blame the girl

That led me there

Until I made her my wife

And the house that we have built

Is white with crimson insides

My God, my mouth is dry

Suicidal, I ain’t suicidal

I won’t drink my way to no asylum

And it can’t be ignored

Like the bobble-head on my dashboard

Quietly nodding at me

Quietly nodding at me