Stonethrower

I threw the first stone,

I broke the door,

and someone got stuck inside

and fell to the floor.

And I drove for hours,

landlocked and blank,

hills all around me with no one to thank.

And when I got back here,

climbed up my tree,

and nobody saw me,

I watched them so carefully.

Trapped like mosquitoes

fucking blood from your arms,

crushed so serenely without an alarm.

But you still walked me back

to the room when it was cold

and we were walking crooked.

I kept the copies,

I kept receipts,

I kept the blisters

on the bottom of my feet.

Well, I'm your assistant,

or maybe you're mine,

but either way you see it,

we won't make a dime.

Because we don't want it easy,

no, we don't like the woods.

We don't take precaution

when we know that we should.


But if we both just admit it,

that we both make mistakes,

then I think we can handle

all the change and the headaches.

But you still got me out,

when you kicked me twice

and took the keys and put them in my hands.

There's always something you're waiting on.

But if you just go now,

you can leave,

you can just go free.

I fell asleep,

accidentally so,

and I didn't wake up

’til an hour ago.

So I stood in my window,

still half-asleep,

with the stone in my hand,

the criticisms I keep.

I can't write conclusions,

they never make sense,

‘cause I can't end the story

when I'm still on the fence.

So I threw the last stone

and that set me free,

so I wrote no conclusion

and came down from my tree.