Losing Ground Lyrics

I was orphaned as a child

Lost in the woods and raised by owls

I tried so hard to get the bones back out

I was not born to the darkness

I learned to fear the breaking dawn

One day I saw my brittle body in a pond

I threw a rock into the water

I was gone

I've been losing ground

My feet are bloody, wrapped in rags, unfit to climb

Thin and pale, weighed down

By the burden of the boy I left behind

I was frightened as a man

Flightless, foreign, and unwell

Without a coin to fondle

Without a shirt to sell

I drank the dew of early morning

Uneasy on the city streets

Like a coyote on the corner creeps

I killed somebody's cat and cried myself to sleep

I've been losing ground

My feet are bloody, wrapped in rags, unfit to climb

Thin and pale, weighed down

By the burden of the boy I left behind