Lower the Stakes Lyrics

Letters from other cultures I

Decipher but still cannot describe

These holiest texts you shove at me

And read out loud

before we fall asleep

The breadwinners brain is on the run

While his snipped son has just begun

Stirring cement and stacking brick

He hopes he can get us out of this

But he's no stronger than he was before

He moves kinda like the night moth

Hugs the light by the door

And all night long we hear him calling

Please lower the stakes

Please lower the stakes

Please lower the stakes

They bring me down

Hard not to cross those thick black lines

Drawn cleopatra round both your eyes

Hard not to watch you disappear

Apologies falling out both your ears

And London she called she wasn't worried

When I asked how she was she didn't hurry

She always noticed the little things

The cracks in the sidewalk, a wedding ring

Saturday turns to Sunday just turns away

The nurse wrote all the patient felt was a mild pain

Between the lines the doctor read said

Please lower the stakes

Please lower the stakes

Please lower the stakes

They bring me down