It’s A Plague, And You’re Invited

All of this time I should have known
But we buried our hopes in our throats
And though it spared us from honesty
It could not deny anything else
After the air cleared
And the anger left our bodies
We slept more soundly
We slept more soundly!

On Denton
Where you realized the full weight of what you had done
You felt ashamed for the first time
But still refused to admit that you were wrong!

I swore I would not carry your weight for you anymore
When, at twenty-one, you cannot help yourself
But in the time you were making up your mind
We still held our breath (We still held our breath)

So history repeats, and the feeling that I will one day wake
An old and empty man only drives me harder
Even if you will not sacrifice your youth
It will grow to resent you like a body of water
It will yield only to entrenched earth

I swore I would not carry your weight for you anymore
When, at twenty-one, you cannot help yourself
But in the time you were making up your mind
We already knew (We already knew)