Category: Charleston, West Virginia
If you don’t want to give
Then what did you come here for?
Don’t take off your jacket
Just turn and walk out the door.
I lose nothing when you’re gone
I was already no one.
But we don’t work for free here anymore.
If you’re not seeking pain
Then what did you come here for?
Don’t take off your shoes
Just turn and walk out the door
I lose nothing when you’re gone
I was already no one.
And we don’t like the takers anymore.
Some men come thinking that this is a game.
Thinking that if they give nothing they’ll win.
Pockets full of dice-
They think that they know vice.
Fingering their golden chain.
Fingers unbutton a button down shirt.
Some men come thinking that life is to hurt.
Fingering the key. Stack of bills for me.
Wash feet off from the dirt
If you don’t wanna die
Then what did you come here for?
Were you thinking that I would want to watch you lie
Like a girl on my floor?
Who will notice when you’re gone?
You were nothing to no one.
And we don’t work for free here anymore.
In my house, you come to learn.
This is my fire- you watch it burn.
Listen, look, learn again.
You will be my secret friend.
You will be my sole defender.
Give me something to remember.
Cause there’s so much pain that I cannot hide.
I need you to know how I feel inside.
In my house, where the shadows are long
Come inside, do not hide
You will learn to be strong.
Cause the pain is a flame I hold inside
Through the night while we dance in the moonlight.
And the flame is a fire that will never end.
Even for my secret friend.
But if you hurt me secret friend-
If you lay me low-
You don’t want to be there
On that night I lose control.
Cause the animal in her cage is pacing
And the wiggly worm know what he be facing-
I’ll make you laugh just like a clown
Then BAM another secet friend go down.
In my house, where the children come play
Through the night, so we hide
But they won’t be there by day.
Cause the pain is a flame we hold inside
Through the night while we dance in the moonlight.
And the flame is a fire that will never end.
Even for my secret friend.
Sacred are the things that last
But you come on so hard and fast I cry.
Sacred things are meant to be
But you won’t put your claim on me so I
Belong to myself.
And the claim of
The life that I have known.
Please don’t let me go there.
Please don’t let me go back to the
Claim of the life that I have known.
Please don’t let me go there
Please don’t let me go.
You come on so fast and dark
Leave just when you’ve had enough
I lie- cloud in my mind.
Sacred things are meant to be
But you won’t put your claim on me and why?
There’s a woman you love
And the claim of
The life that I have known
Please don’t let me go there.
Please don’t let me go back to the
Claim of the life that I have known
Please don’t let me go there
Please don’t let me go back to the
Claim of the life that I have known
Please don’t let me go there
Please don’t let me go.
Claims appear on every street
The ripples where the rivers meet thats life.
Climb their way up every wall
They do whatever’s wanted to survive.
Pick your phone up with your ring
You leave like its not anything but why?
There’s a woman you love.
Through the alleyways I creep
A cloud of smoke when people sleep
And I belong to myself.
And the claim of the life that I have known
Please don’t let me go there
Please don’t let me go back to the
Claim of the life that I have known.
Please don’t let me go there
Please don’t let me go.
Pin me down, feed me grapes
Lay your shirt upon my face
So easy to love
Pin me down beneath your shoe
You have better things to do
So easy to fall
And you say
That I’m easy to love
And you say
That you’ll always be the one who I can run to
You have better things to do than lie
I have better things to do than cry
In the dark, meet you there
Run your fingers through my hair
So easy to fall
From the dark to the dawn
Make me feel like love will just go on
So easy to crawl
And you say
That I’m easy to love
And you say
That you’ll always be the one who I can run to
You have better things to do than lie
I have better things to do than cry
Had your money on my mind
It doesn’t matter if he’s kind
You close your eyes and let it roll away
Meet you at a new location
In between the conversation
Something makes me feel like I’m okay
Cause you say
That I’m easy to love
So I’ll try
To be easy to love
And I’ll try
To never need nobody I can run to cause
You have better things to do than lie
I have better things to do than cry