Six months of joy, months of pain Divided trials united A new exalting woe Pile on top of the rest Feel the stinging, whirling winds of analysis The crippling strain of blame and self-critique, self-abuse and wasted days I'm tired of trying to mend old bones Pile on top of the rest of shit, collecting There is a time, a window, where there is time for medicating Can't lose sight of importance And when we swallow claws may we remember the snake who swallows whole to be revived See what it means to starve and hurt for To volunteer war To realize and taste what you long for Six months of pain, profiting Behold with no derision Much stronger, we bereaved Sit atop all the rest To live your chosen way it seems to mean to bury the coffins of other loves There was a funeral in me with others in attendance By way of old devices I emerged in harmony Sit atop all the rest of those untested There is a time, a window, where there is time for medicating Can't lose sight of importance And when we swallow claws may we remember the snake who swallows whole to be revived See what it means to starve and hurt for To volunteer war To realize and taste what you long for To realize and taste what you long for I have become further from fear of bereavement I have become further from fear of bereavement I have become further from fear of bereavement I have become further from fear