Thursday, June 26, 2025

Birmingham

don't hold your breath at seventeen

you're still not clean

by 21


whatever you won't transform, you'll transmit

you can't sit with it

but you can run


you've covered too much ground

jumped from town to town

can't find your life


if your dreams take up too much space

you'll never find a place

that's big enough


the sadness won't kill you, but the anger might

there's a way to set things right

for jesus' sake


if you're there, be there

tattoo the good lord's prayer

hope it's enough


your deepest desires are not your strongest

neither are the ones you've had longest

can't change either one, father or your mother

you've pit one against the other

and acted tough


hold it well

balance it all like hell

some things you have to let go

for the sake of everything