TRUDGE

What a fool, what a laugh
Pulled an unripe ever-after
A bromide upon a disaster
Less the pool, more the rapids
Wreck of nerves for the bastard
I thought that this might happen

In the want of the wake
Oh for mercy's sake
I can't understand it
Dug my hands in the ground
Kept my head out the clouds
But my mind just kept on rambling
So I turned to my youth
For a beacon of truth
And I got back an answer
I saw hands skimming lily pads
So if I got nothing else
Then I got that

And that's enough
To trudge
Yeah that's enough
To trudge

Wide-eyed, braced and meek
For some faceless, dreamt keeper
I don't want to run things
I just want to run
Naked, wild, fast and free
Where my name is my deeds
Spit the tattered false gods from my teeth

In the want of the wake
Oh for mercy's sake
I'm just meant to bear it
Over ten years now
Since I heard that sound
Run on whiskey, grit, ink and daring
Though the thorns sting their wrath
And the coals burn my path
I still sing with abandon
'Cause I saw hands skimming lily pads
So if I got nothing else
Then I got that

And that's enough
To trudge
Yeah that's enough
To trudge

Looked them right in the eyes
With spit shine and I lied
But the bigger crime is I believed it

Don't know

I swear, there's a man in there
Half watched with a wince
And a hand on his brow
I haunt all the dilettantes
He's the ghost whisper to get out
Can't call him a bastard
When I'm a liar
And I'm a liar when I build
Upon ground I give

Can't begin to explain
The cost of bearing this name
It's more than I prepared for
Over two years now
Since I wrote this down
Laugh with blood and goddamn abandon

And that's enough

That's enough
To trudge
Yeah that's enough
To trudge