More water, more rum, the way the flood is born Piss-poor and bound to drown outside our door You found out the neighbors' pace to stay away Cut feet and screams from a shattered vase Curses spill from a father quill disappear You say the snow tastes just like the water here If you're home alone when kingdom come will you resist? Find a bum with faith and trade your soul for his Between the dogs that haunt the woods, they bark at my door Instead of shrubs where they nurse their cubs they search for someplace warm And when it's late, i think that you're home But black dresses deliver bones Of other girls in heels and pearls and scarlet a's Who are dead to their kin because they live that way In the streets we live our lives as big machines Bad timing and sin replace our parenting Make a mess of make believe Children become what their minds conceive Between the dogs that haunt the woods, they bark at my door Instead of shrubs where they nurse their cubs they search for someplace warm