In the Place Where the Knife Had Been ft. Jesse Benge Lyrics

When I came here last a few years back

This was a lovely little village

But... then there must have been a flood

Or a landslide, or a fire

The only sure thing is that everybody's dead

These days

There are angry ghosts all around us

Dead from wars

Sickness

Starvation

And nobody cares

So you say you're under a curse?

So what

So's the whole damn world

Put the pen

In the place

Where the knife had been

The ink bleeds through the bandages

We pour out

Until we pass out again

We get back up

And we extend our wrists again

Loss is all we've ever known

Another forest lost to feed tortured souls

Another ocean blackened-out

To create meaningless wealth

Fuck

Circle-back and see how it all began

Wealth is godliness the beginning to an ending

The pen drips

I'm pinioned

When facts are only opinions

These words will decay on their own

A temporary home

All I've ever known

Caught in a trap of abandonment

Stuck in impoverishment

Here's our only way to get ahold:

Do nothing that we're fucking told

Scars still run deep

But the solution exists

Being masked by a greedy government

I can't keep living my life like there's no future…

Stuck in this cycle of destructive behavior

Destruction is how the curse begins

And I've watched as it turns trees into coffins

The pallbearers of decline

Sit idly by

And I watch

As the casket

Lowers