Mockingbird Wish Me Luck - Orphans Of A Storm lyrics

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I wrote a failure's guide to hitchhiking<br />

On a wall somewhere in Michigan.<br />

I woke up to a weatherman, <br />

He said it's getting worse in steady increments<br />

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My sense of humour just got blacker<br />

With the thoughts that whiskey entertained.<br />

The funerals that held my life, <br />

My house that burnt down in the rain.<br />

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When our fences came down<br />

We were left in rapture's hands.<br />

Black paint black canvases, <br />

The cards we were dealt we eviction notices.<br />

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When our fences came down<br />

We were left to our own devices.<br />

I didn't pray for rain but it felt cool on my skin<br />

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Unloaded drums and stop banging guns.<br />

The first sight of blood from a busted lip<br />

Revealed me a captain without a ship.<br />

My sister loaded up my pockets<br />

With our mothers jewelry.<br />

She told me not to look so fucking sad, <br />

"Think of this as a requiem"<br />

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I never asked for spring<br />

But I could barely even speak.