Salt in my eyes, stinging my brain.

It's been forty odd days since we've been clean.

Crawl in the cave looking for light

but the ceiling descends and still it's dark.

Hey there, don't declare

optimist 

it's clear you resist.

I try all the time 

to get it right 

and still it persists.

Touched that you think I'm a heartless old crank

and there's things that I've done to convict me of that.

Try to look out eyes straight and fast

but I've struggled of late, my head in the past.

Hey there, dont despair

get in the cave.

We live day and night

to find the right 

sort of light.

Bored of the truth I return to my youth,

drinking Breaker at night in the cold Duchess light.

Out by the fence there's a shout and I'm dead.

Get me out of this place, I'll take casuals another day.

All gates are locked, there's no way I can walk

and the paths that I took led me into the swamp.

Even this trusty accomplice gets rusty,

I'm not being cruel but your brain never ruled.

I've seen the trauma of lives that were squandered

but I'm not to blaim for showing restraint.

Hey there, don't declare

optimist.

I try every night

to get it right. 

And still.

(Something just fucking ran out behind me I swear to God.

Probably a fucking moth knowing you.

Why don't you go back and see then?

Well naw.)

No path of truth led me where I could walk

but the lies that I made led me out of the swamp.