Inventing The Wheel

She's missing in action, you can read her like the times Splitting hairs and giving airs, she's guilty of the crime Don't underestimate the murder your eyes can commit Killing me so tenderly when you won't just admit you're suffering Gold rush and mercury indoctrination spoon Some buy their way in mercy, some get taken out too soon The rest of us run underneath like rain in the ravine Flowing with bloodline and pollution trying to get clean Life and all its fragility Leaving her imprints upon me A riddle I cannot begin to guess She's not inventing the wheel She's not the first to feel Like she's the only one coming up against herself She's the spitting image of her old man in a spiral The more responsibility, the more you crave denial The wind speaks like an orator, some message from the wild Like the courage of a mother, letting go of her first child Life and all its fragility Running at the centre of living A riddle I cannot begin to guess She's not the crop or the cream, she's not about to seem Like she's the only one coming up against herself How long, how wide, and how deep? How bad could it be To blow it off and run away from yourself? Waking up to a heavy cup, ambition drinking me Helpless I watch another death, lay out on TV I render it down to size and sound 'til it comes as no surprise To sleep all through the night and still wish to open my eyes Life and all her fragility The midwife of this urgency A moment I may never get again Oh, a moment I may never get again Oh, a moment I may never get again