The Warden & The Hangman

I saw you there

Face grim and arms bare

All in tears

Placed in the electric chair

All that you've been has suddenly become the air around me

As I breathe you in and shiver in your place

For you have left your body in a haste

Never even got to watch you make a final blink

Your life is now a blot of ink

And I can hardly tell what it was that you had been writing

Now I crawl into myself

Like you held fast until morning in your cell

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Though you weren't righteous, and you never knew what wrong is

I have loved you in spite of this, and I promise I will mourn you

And I am glad that you forgave the warden and the hangman

In your final words, I saw the man I knew was meant to be my friend

Till the end, I guess you were my brother, just not in a good way

And now I crawl into myself

And in time I'll also crawl out of this hell

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Fare thee well forever, I will suffer still a little longer

But I have no anger, no fear, no masks, no veneers

For today I saw the law break itself in awe

You have never done the things they said you've done

And we both knew and now I know alone

And they will burn the whitest bones

Is this how we atone?

Now I crawl into myself

While they bury you in existential jail

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm