Pathos Prairie

Faster than hope flies cold through my veins

Faster than cruelty could drain it out

I commit crimes and I call them mistakes

Nothing denies like a heart in doubt

This I know!

People flow like streams where I bathe

Then drift along to a foreign place

The past like a servant that bends for our sake

Into the lines we tell it to trace

Like how we are wired

Like how we decide

Like how we are taught

Like how we are not

Like how we hide ourselves in vain

Laughter in sunshine, laughter in pain

Keeps pace of heart in an honest life

But after the fondness for life is erased

What races on in my soul besides

Rabid mutts that fight and fuck and howl till they faint

They too run on when the moon is lit

Faster than love turns itself into rage

Faster than i attempt to forget

Like how we desire

Like how we embrace

Like how we give up

Like how we make love

Like how we taste

When we're spit away

Like how we are wild

Like how we are pure

Like how we despise

Like how we tell lies

Like how we're sure that we're gonna change

That we're gonna change (x2)