My Good Deed

I tried to save a girl I truly loved

And didn't quite know how to help her

So now she's sleeping as her parents up above

Cry over things that they can't tell her

And when I did my good deed

I thought I'd feel unbroken gladness

But standing in the street alone

I just felt sinking sadness

Girl, your dad will not us bless

So hang up your veil and dress

Look at me and take one guess

Where this best-intentioned love will lead us

I once felt a feeling fully through

Though I knew I shouldn't feel it

Because to act on it I'd be a person

Who should be slapped into a straitjacket

So every time it comes around

I just let it die inside me

You said, "I only come around

Because I just need you to hide me"

So we knelt in those dead weeds

Sticks and sharp rocks cutting into our knees

And I thought that we would freeze

But there was just too much warm blood in our bodies

I'm not going to make you take the pills

Though you should really think about it

The fire by which we both were almost killed

Glowed so beautiful