Birchwood - Kill the Vultures

Won’t you speak what’s on your mind

I may be deaf, but I ain’t blind

Misery comes right on time

While you stand at the station

The flesh hangs loosely from your words

They beg for change out on the curb

With both hands out they have the nerve

To ask me for more patience

Your silence is a killer’s knife

A killer with a lovely wife

A bride who threw bouquets of ice

That I caught quick as lightening

The air is thick and I can’t breathe

I wish you were off overseas

Instead you’re burning next to me

And trying to read my writing

A pen has more to say right now

Than two kids who are wondering how

They got here under toxic clouds

Fuck you and your forecast

My summer never felt so cold

Your winter nights are getting old

But legally I can’t let go

Once your bedroom door’s latched

You’ll have a drag, but you don’t smoke

You swim in lies, but you don’t float

No, you can’t be blamed and you don’t vote

You’re perfect as a train wreck

You crawl back in your shattered shell

Collecting all your parts that fell

Then climb back up to the top shelf

You jump and make the same mess

I’ve seen the world in broken parts

I’ve fallen down, collected scars

I have my theory where it starts

And you will surely end it

The jesters tell you you’re the king

The foolish one believes these things

Stop looking at your diamond ring

And save your sinking friendship

One angel on your shoulder sits

With broken heart and open wrists

She tells you what your problem is

She tells you all of mine, too

I reached for you and you were gone

Like smokey moonlight in the dawn

I’ll look back to where I went wrong

And I know there I’ll find you

And I know there I’ll find you

And I know there I’ll find you

And I know there I’ll find you

Birchwood

So won’t you speak what’s on your mind

C’mon, I said won’t you speak what’s on your mind

Please, won’t you speak what’s on your mind

I may be deaf, but I ain’t blind