Alabaster

You took your shell off
And you glowed
You left it on the floor next to our clothes
With the lesions on your neck
That helped you to stop believing
In the miracle of life and
All it’s simple secrets
Or «am I the monster?»
The doctor called and
He’s saying that you’re sick again
Reserved to a fault
They don’t know I never feel it
Did you expect me to wrestle alone in what you dealt with?
Get married to a cause I never truly believed in?
So we’ll lower our expectations
To play catch and release
I’ve been looking through old definitions
To research the lines and
Find a technicality
The weight of it all
Finally buckles through your skin
But Johnny was okay
Until Johnny found our mescaline
Now he’s speaking in tongues that the Angels say can’t be penned
As he’s seeing things that he swore couldn’t ever exist
Now I’m fielding reports that my sister’s only half my kin
And how our blood is only blood, if the stain is half of it
So we’ll lower our expectations
To play catch and release
I’ve been borrowing old definitions
To redraw the lines that defined what it meant to leave
So we’ll lower our expectations
To play catch and release
I’ve been borrowing your definitions
It’s only an affair if it feels unfair to me