I Love You, I’m Sorry, Please Help Me, Thank You

Some bumper sticker wisdom while you're walking the plank I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks The illusion of protection in the face of a tank You were a student You were a soldier You were a symbol They made you a martyr I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you When the nationalist demagogues eat the desperately confused I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you We're so far past civility it feels useless to argue But love isn't passive A trick or a tactic Tried to call action So, go let 'em have it When I open my perspective from my fear of the world For the daughter I was trying to raise With the total sum of everything asleep in my lap I could hear I was the one in my way You said life is sweet, my pain's got teeth I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thank you You said acceptance and forgiveness, I said nobody asked you I love you, I'm sorry, please help me now I have to drop it sometime, but I hate that I have to Oh, but it saved me Oh, but it changed me It shaped and remade me Oh, what it gave me I was burned out on obsessing with the end of the world And the daughter I was helping to raise With the total sum of everything awake in my lap I could hear what you were trying to say You said life is sweet, and you praised God too You said life is sweet, and you praised God too You said life is sweet, if I let it be I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks I love you, I'm sorry, please help me, thanks