Black Spring

they elected the president last night
and you ask me if i went to vote
i remind you that i was with you
we lit up that dust and stayed in to smoke

you ask me if the world will change
i tell you for us it won’t
we were born this way
and we’ll die this way
there’s only one way

“remember you used to hold me when I cried,” you'd said
i inhale, let out that heart-shaped smoke
as your eyes go red

so you slam the door
and put on that same song you played last night
you ain’t a beauty but i think you’re alright
that’s when i see the light

tommy and beth come through the back door
one month in hiding but they know the score
wheres the money, tommy barks
i smoked it to the core

rachel comes out
eyes bleeding
tommy panics, fires off a round
now rachel’s on the floor kneeling

beth screams out
tommy runs out the door
rachel on her knees
how’d we let it get this far

now i’m chasing down tommy
rachel in the backseat bleeding
beth holds her hand
they both start screaming

i pull onto dover street
beth starts to plead
he didn’t mean it, she cries
we gotta get help or rachel dies

but i’m long gone.
she’s too high to die
i’m too high to cry
so i’m outta the car and i don’t even know why

yelling at tommy to unlock the fucking door
i’ll tell him its not like before
then i’ll put a bullet in his skull
drag him in the dirt tell him this what livings for

we had a million years to get this right
so now its gonna end tonight
i’m screaming till my lungs bleed
think of beth and rachel and my heart starts to speed

feel the blood on rachels hip
remember the taste of her lips
imagine the bullet in tommy’s heart
this all went wrong from the start

now its juggernaut black
good kid gone bad
everyone dreams under one sky
but god never says hello
only good bye

rachel takes a breath
every one could be her last
this is what tommy did
how can i forgive

days on parker street
we were just kids, 11 or 12
no rain for miles
no thoughts of hell

good kids turn bad
but maybe those good kids can come back
so i put the gun away
pray the sun comes out to stay

we know these streets by all the mistakes we made of them

and now i see the end is comin soon
all the blood runnin lightning blue
and i loved you all this time
but now it’s done and this is goodbye

i take rachels hand
leave beth and tommy to be damned
rachels got nine lives
so we’re gonna get outta this alive

peel out onto the highway
listening for angels in her cries
digging for diamonds in her eyes
think of melissa
think of danny
think of tommy and beth
think of mom and grandma
and dad gripping his chest
where’s jamie and davie
and the gang from the party store
the old men in suits
who survived a thousand winters or more
where’s tim and will and pratt
and the carver street kids
the ones with swollen lips
and butterfly eyelids
wheres my brother and sister
how come they ain’t here
we could’ve been so much more
give us back all those years
and where’s god and the devil
to save me or damn me
i gotta feel something
before this life kills me
where’s ms. kim and the girls from the lake
the ones with the weed and the candy colored snakes
and where are you now
and where are we
the forgotten children
gods bastard sons
stay with me rachel
keep your eyes on the sun
mornings coming quick
and this’ll all be done