One For The Catholic Girls

I was drunk, I didn't let on

As I stood before your door at dawn

I guess I might have awaken the dogs

Because the shadows started coughing them out

So I put my hands into my hair

And I pulled and let it hurt

There was a light going out somewhere

I thought it hear through the wood

That held the house together

That kept me out here in the cold

I knew the sun was going to change the weather

But I was looking she never would show

I was jamming my hands in my pockets

And I was thinking about throwing a stone

But if I had the courage I knew that I lost it

I was too scared to walk myself home

So lit out on a concrete rail

And I made my way through the dead park

I could still here the cicadas wailing

As the morning fog rolled off the dark

I had the whole night in my lungs

I was breathing so hard and so fast

I scored one for the catholic girls

And I tried to stuff it all in a box

You know the kind that comes with a key

You can throw in the lake or bury somewhere

I though about the kid you knew before me

And how he held onto that lock of your hair

He kept it tied up in a sad rubber band

In his dresser drawer on the right side

Now he walks around with strands of you all over him

As if you were still spending the night

I was jamming my hands in my pockets

I swear I was zero at the bones

If I felt my courage making a come back

I was drunk, I didn't let on

'Cause I was doing like my pa had always done

I was trying to rise back from the dead

Saying all those ghost prayers before the storm

Hoping God won't hit me over the head

I guess I was out for a revelation

I was kicking out agaist the darkness

I had dew all over my body

From sleeping in a ball under a park bench

I was so sure I would never make it

I remember like it happened only yesterday

I don't know why I'm still holding onto it

Don't hearts break nearly every other day

When you try to make the sweetness last

'Cause everything happens so fast

And your waiting with half dry eyes

For something to fall or something to rise