Spirit

My spirit’s kinda broken

No one’s gonna care when you tell ’em why

Keep it all unspoken

Acceptance has more value than what’s right

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Raised on “bull and bread”

Turns out it was just lead

Poison for the mind

Give me beef and brine 

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I’ll take a distilled hate

Over your evil days

Brewed in your flaccid rage

I’ve picked your silly cage

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But the really painful thing

Is I don’t want the ring

Just leave me to my water

My guns, and let me sing.

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