Men I Never Knew
All the words in the dictionary
float above our heads,
wanting just to be spoken
but not knowing where to land.
Cigarettes will be the ones who
keep your lips company while I'm
far away and living in cities
with nothing to my name
its simple
I'm certain
Here's to the men who died
in a war when our fathers were boys
and to the man I never knew
who gave birth to my mother
its simple
I'm certain
theses circles
keep working
and I could learn a thing or two
so could you so could you
I could learn a thing of two
so could you so could you
and the worms are drinking and dancing
feasting out on the bones
and some day my body will go down
it will be theirs instead of yours
chorus