Soldier

I was in love with a man built like a sledgehammer who called himself The Craftsman

He found me in the woods one day while I was rough I was unwatered needed bandages

He tilled the soil at my feet, brought the river to me, I didn’t know it was for the drowning

We laughed so hard everyday that I, I, I never even heard the pounding

I was falling

And you loved to carve me out on a good day

After the sun gave me just enough to live

You left me out to dry in the evenings

After the winter turned my heart to crisps

You built a house with my bones

It was permanent, you said

But you’d come and go

Fleshed it out with the stones

From the bags on both your shoulders

Suddenly I’m a decade older

I’m a soldier

I’m a soldier

I’m a soldier

I’m a decade older

You handcrafted my insecurities and then you tried to cure them

Swooped in like my savior, but you were the one - the cause of all my suffering

It’s easy to believe you loved me when I’d forgotten, hmm, what the word meant

And when you’d leave, despite all of my flowers it really felt like the whole world ended

And you loved to carve me out on a good day

After the sun gave me just enough to live

You left me out to dry in the evenings

After the winter turned my heart to crisps

You built a house with my bones

It was permanent, you said

But you’d come and go

Fleshed it out with the stones

From the bags on both your shoulders

Suddenly I’m a decade older

I’m a soldier

I’m a soldier

I’m a soldier

I’m a decade older

Hah, hah, hah

Hah, hah, hah