The visage crumbled, but ignore the wreckage It’s worth was loaned As with mange brought by the flea As with stares brought by the gangly We’re all marked by the path of our births As with mange brought by the flea Like the call of the unclean, we’ve been pulled And the only direction is down The reek of our kin betrays the stain we’ve hid I’m the hold I’m a mark, a lock I wouldn’t have lost my breath for lack of a cause Good God, I couldn’t break free in time from the grasps of stragglers Grounded and shamed, dragged kicking back through the dirt We’re all marked Always