The Weight Of The World

It could be your southern drawl

Or how you limp when you walk

That makes

Me want to say

All those things I never could

A school boy crush carved into wood

That fades

In the rain

You were born in a baptist house

With a rusty spoon inside your mouth

The taste

Didn't go away

And when the sun comes peaking out

You work until it goes back down

The days

Are all the same

With a baby boy strapped to your hip

And a tiny cut above your lip

That states

God doesn't save

Everyone who buys his book

Some of us Get overlooked

In a way

It's a shame

But you still walk in his light

And say the same words every night

I pray the lord my soul to keep

But what about the rest of me

My faith

Can't take the weight

The summers came and left like fall

Ten thankless years of working hard

The school bell rings the kids come home

But you still feel like you're alone

Because your husband holds his whiskey glass

Tighter than a hero's past

You rip those black beads off your throat

And swap them out for a knotted rope

The end

Is your only friend

You use that final rush of blood

To say the things you never could

I pray the lord that you will see

In my eyes bulge out and my body swing

Because I now I finally understand

That jesus is like every man

He tells you want you want to hear

Until you fall in love and he disappears

My faith

Couldn't take the weight

When the weight of the world

Falls square on your shoulders

A pin prick or missed call

Can somehow destroy you

We all are victims of warped expectations

When people can't save us we suddenly hate them

So much

In fact

That we lose our grasp

On reality the responsibility

That we have to ourselves

And everybody else

When the weight of the world falls square on your shoulders

A pin prick or missed call can somehow destroy you

We all are victims of warped expectations

When people can't save us

We suddenly hate them