David - White Hinterland

David, I don’t believe in God

I don’t think we’re heroes in this play

I see beauty in your eyes

But all around me

Corruption, cruelty, and senselessness

You wanna know that time erodes all pain

With all certainty I can’t say

David, I take no comfort in fate

Unruly prevaricator

And bathos in the well of my memories

Colors all it touches

Sentimental and cheap

Whatever you say

Don’t say we were lucky

Whatever you do

Don’t call it chance

That’s like saying it was an accident

When I was running at you

Running at you with my sharpest knife

Friends we know will fall behind

Many of them at their own hands

Some caught beneath the wheel of the bigger lie

They were fucked from the start, baby

They never began

David, I don’t need a second chance

Though your hands are tied and mine are none too clean

This life is the only one I want to live

And it ain’t any less of a gift when it’s one you cannot keep

Whatever you say

Don’t say we were lucky

Whatever you do

Don’t call it chance

It was no accident

I was running at you with my sharpest knife

Running at you

Running at you

Running at you with my sharpest knife

Running at you with my sharpest knife