High Hopes

from "The Shark" by Empty Moon

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"High Hopes"
by: Empty Moon

I was born in California with a fire in my heart
they told me it would burn everything I’d ever love
Atlanta Georgia made a man out of me
watching a kid kill a snake under the dogwood tree
I heard some years later that he died in his sleep
I thought that was pretty lucky considering everything

I loved his younger sister she was older then me
a kind of trouble that I’d never seen
we got married in the summer falling asleep
she was pregnant by the winter
we got divorced in the spring

so let go, let it go, you’d never know if I let go

so I moved to Kansas City before it rose from the dead
swept up the ashes of my heart burned the sheets of my bed
but I knew she’d come and find me and that’s exactly what she did
she said that she still loved me but she was still with him
and I wish that I felt nothing or at least put up a fight
I’m that snake’s severed head eyes cubes of ice
and I let her touch me it’s disgusting I know
and I let her kiss me her lips soft as smoke
I felt like I was doing something bitter to him
a man I hardly knew the father of my kid
but I knew that’s what she wanted it wasn't hard to tell
she hated everyone but no one as much as herself

I heard she got remarried she found jesus and had more kids
none of them will ever know how insane she really is
I guess it’s kind of funny in the darkest parts
that kid with a shovel born without a heart

so let go, let it go, we had such high hopes, such high hopes

driving through the desert back to the coast
I saw a skeleton of a wolf on the side of the road
and a couple miles later I saw a pack around a ghost
they looked at me like they loved me and said “welcome home”
well it’s not too much further across the mountain range of teeth
from the top we could watch the ocean breathe underneath
the desert begs for water and the sunsets dripping blood
our past trails behind us in a golden cloud of dust

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from "The Shark", released November 4, 2014

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