Mythological Beauty

you have a mythological beauty

you have the eye of someone i have seen

outside of ordinary situations

even outside of dreams

you lie in bed at night and watch the lines of headlights through your screen

there is a child inside you who is trying

to raise the child in me

if you wanna leave

you just have to say

you're all caught up inside

but you know the way

you cut the flesh of your left thumb

using your boyfriend's knife

seventeen you took his come

and you gave birth to your first life

you gave andrew a family who

you thought could love and take better care

i have an older brother i don't know

he could be anywhere

if you wanna leave

you just have to say

you're all caught up inside

but you know the way

you're all caught up inside

but you know the way

rented a house in niswah, minnesota,

shrapnel, and oil cans, rhubarb in the yard

i built a ladder out of metal pieces

father was working hard

standing beneath the oak tree by the front door

you were inside baking bread

sister came out and put her arms around me

blood gushing from my head

you held me in the backseat with a dishrag

soaking up blood with your eye

I was just 5 and you were 27 praying don't let my baby die

if you wanna leave

you just have to say

you're all caught up inside

but you know the way

you're all caught up inside

but you know the way

so much more

to live your life

to walk the floor

to say goodnight

to leave your light on

do you leave you light on?

you're all caught up inside

but you know the way

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