Like Lazarus Lyrics

I was born an orphan, beside an angry lake

It's an old and boring story, but I hope you'll stay awake

They set my feet to running upon a broken trail

Nursed me on the milkweed and bitter stones of hail

They filled my bucket daily with bread and stolen dreams

Manufactured wisdom, and methamphetamines

Let me rest like Lazarus! before I come back to the cold

Let me rest like Lazarus did; write some meaning in my bones

I married a musician so I'd stay close to song

Measured notes upon the page to keep me right from wrong

I nurtured my piano with eager songs of greed

Pregnant with the promise of my unbounded need

I married then a painter with dark unsparing eyes

Imbibed a forced perspective to infiltrate the lies

Let me rest like Lazarus! before I come back to the cold

Let me rest like Lazarus did; write some meaning in my bones

After four days' waiting, they stamped my papers"No!"

Handed me a pencil and told me I could go

I studied the reflection of each forgotten frame

Wrote the manifesto to resurrect my name

Let me run like Lazarus! claw my way back to the cold

Let me rise like Lazarus did, tear the meaning from my bones