The Low Road Has No Exits

Wherever I go there too shall be grief
My love doting on me, tenderly
Vacant praise for her hollow man
Such poise
What loyalty, what elegance
Inspired lust in a languid tongue
Gave blood and found me where there once was none
So I burned the bridge she'd have taken to leave
Each one
She's all I have left
C'est la vie
C'est la vie

The more it spreads the closer I come
Better off behind your back
Where we consummate in the presence of none
Dead weight don't wait
For the violent and the endless stream
A spineless yet supporting cast
Of the charmless that are harming me
From the cradle to the grave
It has been a walk of shame

What did you think that your absence could bring, old friend?
My heart, it bursts with cavities
A slur couldn't rouse the sadness I've seen
Look close, that beauty is life, she's with me
Flaunted indifference is cheap cologne
Actor, you speak of me in formal tones
To the gutless dogs that have cried mutiny, know this
Marooned with grief, I'm richer than kings

From the cradle to the grave
It has been a walk of shame

I am dead, what is one less worm?
Seconds off of a prisoner's term
This is hell, you brought a candle to burn?
I am death and you have marked my words