Empty Handed

Sleep in the morning, ignore light from your window

Glow through your eyelids, streaks of red in the shadow

Sharing the sunlight with the ones that eclipse you

They’re blind when you’re in pain, and they’re deaf when you say so

Show me a beacon that can shine under flood lights

Cross on the front door, X’s over the street signs

Pace to the far wall, put your back to the corner

Ache in your fingers creeping up into your spine

And every day

It takes a different shape

Locking my eyes and now I can’t look away

You found me so far from where you landed

Bullets in your teeth, but empty handed

Evil has a place I knew I’d find it

In between the roots of everything I know

Cling to the switchblade that you take when you leave home

The fear that you let show when you’re sure that you’re alone

Digging your nails into your forearm to stay up

You hate what they’ve shown you and you fear what you don’t know

And every day

I hope the joy that they take

Comes back to haunt them

Follows them to the grave

You found me so far from where you landed

Bullets in your teeth, but empty handed

Evil has a place I knew I’d find it

In between the roots of everything I know

Show me the whites of your eyes

Bloodshot behind your disguise

Seeing outside of my self

(Cut me open, cut me open)

Stay on your side of the line

(Cut me open, see what’s broken)

Seeing outside of myself

Stay on your side of the line

You found me so far from where you landed

Bullets in your teeth, but empty handed

Evil has a place I knew I’d find it

In between the roots of everything I know

Cut me open, cut me open

Cut me open, see what’s broken

Cut me open, cut me open

Cut me open, see what’s broken