Help Me Breathe

<br>A silent woman parts her lips<br><br>To speak before she ought<br><br>She makes a cross of her emotions<br><br>And a panic of her thoughts<br><br>Out of her mouth she comes in rages<br><br>Like vesuvius in heat<br><br>She runs ahead of her intentions<br><br>Though shes programmed for defeat<br><br><br><br>By the hunger and the hatred<br><br>The prostitution of her nature<br><br>She has given and forgiven for to give her<br><br>Kunt forgave her<br><br>To the longing for a loving hand<br><br>Or fist or cock or spike<br><br>But you know you cannot reach her<br><br>til shes taken back her life<br><br><br><br>A lonely child of fourteen<br><br>Finds her future in a drum<br><br>She plays for present day omissions<br><br>And for whom she must become<br><br>Out of her passion breaks the stillness<br><br>Of a solitary mind<br><br>A strict devotion to the rhythm<br><br>With a substitute for time<br><br><br><br>She looks out of her window<br><br>At the changes in the sky<br><br>She never wants to leave her sanctuary<br><br>Bedroom books and lies<br><br>But shes grown up on the outside<br><br>With an instinct for the pain<br><br>That drives the men inside her wild<br><br>And women wanting her insane<br><br><br><br>Both lovers bring their cameras<br><br>To the beach on new years eve<br><br>They are expecting nothing other<br><br>Than to see what they believe<br><br>Four feet walking toward the lighthouse<br><br>In the freezing winter rain<br><br>She flashes stately in the distance<br><br>Humming her somnolent refrain<br><br><br><br>You are here now you are here now<br><br>There is nothing left to fear now<br><br>With each step the sunk is sinking<br><br>Though the truth is less unclear now<br><br>They have won a thousand battles<br><br>They have wrung their own demise<br><br>Now they are standing still and weeping<br><br>For a love they cant despise<br><br><br><br>A silent woman and a lonely child<br><br>Have nowhere else to go<br><br>But to the lighthouse in december<br><br>Before the new year takes its toll<br><br>They have found inside each other<br><br>What they had lost within themselves<br><br>Now they are bonded to forever<br><br>In their search for something else<br><br><br><br>Generations like the water<br><br>Shape the face of every stone<br><br>A pedigrees an invitation<br><br>To discover youre alone<br><br>Out in the kitchen or the courtyard<br><br>Or the bedroom or the bank<br><br>It only takes a fateful moment<br><br>To become the one you thank<br><br><br><br>And light shall lift them<br><br>Higher and higher<br><br>And dreams shall carry them on<br><br>And loss shall lead them<br><br>To lifes final hour<br><br>Where death shall overcome