Long May I Sleep

I can’t believe myself

How could I believe someone else?

I can’t afford the shoes I wear

I bought them back before when I had cash to spare

Long may I wear them

I want the life I have to finally dig its grave

I want to lose the battle with the world I crave

Let me walk and think a while

And I’ll find and doubt the truth in every song I write

Long may I write

Now I see the way that all things come

Not a bite of food will ever touch my tongue

If it isn’t in the will of my beloved one

And truly I say, he watches every crumb

And low he hides all the things I want to bite

A handful at a time I take the things I see

Try to write them down and take them back with me

I wrestle, but the words don’t sound the way they read

It’s like trying to pull my childhood from out a dream

Long may I sleep