How Like A Man Lyrics

This is my favorite chord

I use it to remember

All the times that we cut our baby teeth

It moves like you

All bronze and brazen

Up against the dark

Sometimes I wanted to kiss you

Sometimes I wanted something to kill

The power in the ashes, by and by

The people that you think are lesser than

Your young mouth's immortality, these things will soon be gone

That's just my luck, how like a man

Gamble your reputation

On the temporary pleasures of the flesh

It blooms like a virus

Bursting from a cell, into whatever's next

Somebody needed to love you

That somebody needed to be me

Your rage pressed into diamonds down below

The colors you inhaled straight from the can

Each broken bone and dial tone, these things will stay as ghosts

That's just my luck, how like a man

Your smile's a bounty

At 16, who's counting

The pressure is mounting

A migraine again

It's a taste of the black mold

The madness that takes hold

Never been one to be told

A brat til the end

And you should know better

So smug and so clever

Grab hold of a tether

And don't ever leave her

These forces of nature

Are just what happens

When an act of God

Meets a non believer

The tryptamines and traumas you collect

Sunburns that will fade into a tan

The need, the fat, the cancer, coded in your DNA

Well that's just my luck, how like a man

The mythos that you write for all your friends

The complex shapes you trace out with your hand

The faith that there is something out there better for us both

Hold them close, how like a man