take me home
june 25th
(please, take me home)
i'd like to go home now.
can you take me away?
i want to go home now.
it's getting dark out, and i don't know where i am.
these faces don't speak, and they stare at me all wrong. i don't like their eyes or their words or their colours. nothing looks right.
take me back to my room, where everything is all set in rows, where the letters are numbered and the whispers walk in pair. i'm so tired of being alone.
do you remember? i can barely see.
do you remember when we used to breathe with our lungs and not our skin?
all we do now is scream. i'm so tired. please, take me home?
i lost my way in the war, and now the bombs have all dropped and the bullet casing hits the floor. everyone is crying and all the houses are empty and black. why don't the clouds leave?
it's cold out here. can you hear me?
i've forgotten my name, somewhere in the ashes. i can't find it, i can't find my name. where am i?
where did i go?
i don't like the sunlight, my skin is still raw. it burns me, i'm not done, i'm not ready, i'm still young, please don't leave.
do you remember? i don't like this sky.
do you remember when we knew all the stars and they told us all we were, all we'd ever be?
i miss them so dearly. but the sky is so bright and i can't find the constellations. please, take me home?
they're still looking at me all funny. and they ask me what's wrong?
i don't know. I don't know anything. please, take me home?
they call me by my name. that's not my name.
they tell me to sleep. that's not my bed.
they watch me eat. i'm not hungry anymore.
they keep telling me the war is over, and the world is still spinning, but i can still hear the echos and the gunshots. maybe i died in the war.
maybe i died in the war.
take me home in a caskett.
through the door that's always open.
lay me down, cover me up.
i want flowers at my funeral. and play a sweet song for me.
don't let them cry. those aren't my tears.
i'm so tired. let me sleep.
in a bed that's all my own.
in a head that's set right.
lay all the soldiers down, this is no time for blood and fire.
this is death.
please, i've been so lost and alone.
please, take me home?
