Inventing The Wheel

She's missing in action
You can read her like the times
Splitting hairs and giving airs
She's guilty of the crime
Don't underestimate the murder
Your eyes can commit
Killing me so tenderly when you won't just admit
You're suffering

Gold rush and mercury indoctrination spoon
Some buy their way in mercy
Some get taken out too soon
The rest of us run underneath
Like rain in the ravine
Flowing with bloodline and pollution
Trying to get clean

Life and all its fragility
Leaving her imprints upon me
A riddle I cannot begin to guess

She's not inventing the wheel
She's not the first to feel
Like she's the only one coming up against herself

She's the spitting image of her old man in a spiral
The more responsibility, the more you crave denial
The wind speaks like an orator, some message from the wild
With the courage of a mother letting go of her first child

Life and all its fragility
Running at the center of living
A riddle I cannot begin to guess

She's not the crop or the cream
She's not about to seem
Like she's the only one coming up against herself
How long, how wide, and how deep?
How bad could it be
To blow it off and run away from yourself?

Waking up to a heavy cup
Ambition drinking me
Helpless I watch another death
Play out on TV
I render it down to size and sound
'Til it comes as no surprise
To sleep all through the night and still wish
To open my eyes

Life and all her fragility
The midwife of this urgency
A moment I may never get again
Oh, a moment I may never get again
A moment I may never get again