What Is A Friend?

Don't show up, don't show up, please

I've my own intentions, just don't show up, please

All my lights come on shinin', shinin' headlights on a truck

Down in the swamp, where the old man's goin' on

Some bands don't come, but they say they don't see

Please don't come to see me down on my knees

And I know you well, your own personal hell, it drives you

Oh, it drives you straight down the well

Into the canyons, where the back city hearts

And the sidewalk it cries, cause it knows you so well

So don't you dare come, don't you dare come round here

Not when my bottom falls out, when my heart, it steers

Out into the garden, forgiveness on a branch

And I ain't holdin' on, I ain't holdin' on

Don't you come round here, when all of it fails

Pickin' up your smile and tellin' me it's all gonna be

It's gonna be alright, you tell me with your eyes

I Don't believe you, I don't see it

Don't you comfort on my mother, don't you think about my heart

Don't you run for cover, when they tell you it's your fault

Lie defenseless in the judgment, of what was and always is

Down below the common good, of what was a friend

What was a friend, what defines a friend

Don't you come round here, when all of this ends

I've got no troubles to share with you my friend

Live out your own life, and take what you will

All of what we had, was lost in the kill

But you brought a knife

I am the garden

You brought the knife

I am the war, oh I am the war

What are you, again?