Mud

I've spent my life stacking dynamite

Fool me once, fool me twice

I've spent my life trying to live right

Dinosaur bones only know how low my toes touched stone

Down to my core, I shovel mud and I shuffle ore

Sifting dirt into jars just to keep score

I beg you to watch your step

Before you snag the fucking landmines

Laid in my mind

Tripwires and bamboo deathtraps

Hiding deep in the dirt, I dare you

Paint along the tunnel walls (I draw)

Ladders to Heaven, but traced in blood

My heart's a chasm, my mind a pit of mud

But the animal aches to rise above

Breaking the surface (War time)

No peace is the purpose

Curse us, hurt us, desert us

In the end, there's no friends

Explosives excavated from a war I couldn't win

God lifted my chin and said

"Time to shine"

Hide your eyes"

When I bite the dynamite

Skull ignites light of a firefight

Who survives alive on the other side

If I decide to detonate tonight?

Who survives alive on the other side

If I decide to detonate tonight?

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