featherweight

all this time i've been hanging on

to an edge i caught when we both were young

that the world i won wasn't near enough

always distant

always all

in all that war

i'd forgotten how

many men might die for what i'd renounced

i was staging life as a battleground

no i let that grasping fall

may the last long year be forgiven

all that war left within it

i couldn't

though i'm beginning to

and we've only made it together

feel some change in the weather

i couldn't

though i'm beginning to

and though it's all so uncertain

cold

all the rafters cracked

all the copper sold

there's a ration back in a manifold

if you need it or forgot

may the last long year be forgiven

all that war left within it

i couldn't

though i'm beginning to

and we've only made it together

feel some change in the weather

i couldn't

though i'm beginning to

and somehow i see

it's free

and with love and hate in the balance

one last way past the malice

one warm day's all i really need

and with love and hate in the balance

one last way past the malice

one warm day is all i really need