Already Broken - Karliene

I know a man from a fallen place

Who still walks in a field of graves

His hands are stained

His eyes are open

He’s a shell of a different man

Looking down on a boy

Already broken

There’s a ticking underneath his feet

There’s a trench where his soul should be

And in the night

He hears explosions

He cuts deals with the Devil all day

Running far from the boy

Already broken

They say no noose can hang him

They say no grave can hold him

He’s like a storm

On a still ocean

With every gun at his head

He never fears his own death

Can’t break a man

Already broken

In between this life and death

Is a razor-wire fence

That’s where he’s been

And where he’s going

He’s a ghost of a desolate land

He’s a wandering man

Already broken

There’s a ticking underneath his feet

There’s a war always on his street

His hands are stained

In crimes unspoken

He cuts deals with a blood-stained hand

He’s a lawless man

Already broken

They say no noose can hang him

They say no grave can hold him

He’s like a storm

On a still ocean

With every gun at his head

He never fears his own death

Can’t break a man

Already broken

They say he felt a moment of Grace

For an hour in a different place

And like a ghost

Her eyes were open

And he felt like a different man

When she sang to the boy

Already broken