Steve Earle - Lungs lyrics

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<br>Well won?t you lend your lungs to me? <br>Mine are collapsing <br>Plant my feet and bitterly breathe <br>Up the time that?s passing. <br>Breath I?ll take and breath I?ll give <br>Pray the day ain?t poison <br>Stand among the ones that live <br>In lonely indecision. <br> <br>Fingers walk the darkness down <br>Mind is on the midnight <br>Gather up the gold you?ve found <br>You fool it?s only moonlight. <br>If you try to take it home <br>Your hands will turn to butter <br>You better leave this dream alone <br>Try to find another. <br> <br>Salvation sat and crossed herself <br>Called the devil partner <br>Wisdom burned upon a shelf <br>Who?ll kill the raging cancer <br>Seal the river at it?s mouth <br>Take the water prisoner <br>Fill the sky with screams and cries <br>Bathe in fiery answers <br> <br>Jesus was an only son <br>And love his only concept <br>Strangers cry in foreign tongues <br>And dirty up the doorstep <br>And I for one and you for two <br>Ain?t got the time for outside <br>Just keep your injured looks to you <br>We?ll tell the world we tried<br><!-- stopprint -->