Swamps - Eldest 11

I remember watching you stand at the edge of the water

Eyes glazed…

I felt so helpless inside.

I felt the strain in my eyes

I watched a soul purge a life

The dark clouds always surround me

It’s in the fight that sometimes I gave up and didn’t try

I owe my teachers everything for keeping me alive

When everything in this life just wanted me to die

I close my eyes, that deep tortured soul is mine…

There is no God here

Just me in the woods and nothing to fear

I’m from the Swamps and this is my home

(What you know about a mercy killing for something you love?)

I’m from the Swamps… Some never make it home

You’re on your own.

(If you SINK YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.)

I’m from the Swamps… Where wrong turns make you whole

(Toughen up or get Roughed up buttercup.)

I’m from the Swamps… Deep in my Rabbit Hole…

Where love is severed in the mud and cold…

I love the murky water.

Dangerous and untold

Steady as she goes

Taking off our Church Clothes

Toss them in the water, see if they float

Pull out our knives and put in boats

From pillar to post.

Blood soaked and brave souls

Echoes of ghosts

When it comes to love anything goes

I close my eyes, that deep tortured soul is mine…

There is no God here

Just me with in the woods and nothing to fear

I’m from the Swamps and this is my home

(What you know about a mercy killing for something you love?)

I’m from the Swamps… Some never make it home

You’re on your own.

(If you SINK YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN.)

I’m from the Swamps… Where wrong turns make you whole

(Toughen up or get Roughed up buttercup.)

I’m from the Swamps… Deep in my Rabbit Hole…

Where love is severed in the mud and cold…