The Salesman, The Husband, The Lover - The Receiving End Of Sirens

Baby boy had a big old heart

Large enough to tear apart

Split evenly in two

Evenly in two

Mom and Dad had a rocky start

Too much head, too little heart

Soon one turned into two

One, two

Dirty hands made separate beds

And folded sheets in which they slept

Oh what’s a boy to do?

What’s a boy to do?

When Daddy finds ten dollar whores

And liquor stores

Can offer more

Than his family

Than his friends

More than the woman that he wed

«Oh no, what a shameful seed I’ve sown.»

Then one day daddy walked away

From his wife, the child they had made

It must have been too much

It must have been too much

Mommy tried her best to pay

The bills so that her son could stay

In the house that he was raised

The sons fight the father’s war

Love on his heels (The place where love grew too old)

He walked out the door

Left his son to fight his war (Too old and broken to appraise)

Left his son to fight his war

You shadow, you ghost (The place where love grew too old)

Look how crooked I’ve grown

What a shameful seed you’ve sown (Too old and broken)

What a seed you’ve sown

Court ordered visits meant weekends with his Dad

Where he had learned his share of lessons on how to drink like his old man

Back home his mother packed her bags and the dreams that she watched drown

For a single room apartment in the seedy part of town

Baby boy became the dad

His family had always lacked

A spitting image of the man

Down to the way he turned his back

He inherited his cheating, an heir to his drunken breath

His father willed him arrogance and passed down his empty chest

Love on his heels (The place where love grew too old)

He walked out the door

Left his son to fight his war (Too old and broken to appraise)

Left his son to fight his war

You shadow, you ghost (The place where love grew too old)

Look how crooked I’ve grown

What a shameful seed you’ve sown (Too old and broken)

What a seed you’ve sown

«Be a lightbulb»

I’m a wishbone

«Be a rifle, a telephone»

I’m just here for you to use

I’ve got nothing left to lose

I’m the wardship battle

I’m the remnants of the precious metals that weigh you both down

We are heavied, o' so heavy

We are heavied, o' so heavy

Love on his heels (The place where love grew too old)

He walked out the door

Left his son to fight his war (Too old and broken to appraise)

Left his son to fight his war

You shadow, you ghost (The place where love grew too old)

Look how crooked I’ve grown

What a shameful seed you’ve sown (Too old and broken)

What a seed you’ve sown