This Too Shall Pass Away (For Freddy)

You cut her name into your heart

You burn his name into your arm

Cast out the pig you kiss as love

Heaven is closed for now you are alone

This too, this too shall pass away

This too, this too will pass away

Listen, Steven is singing to you

The pain of life you wipe away

A reason,

That a fine gray ash shall recall these days

Inquire

The serpent

To become a rag of a dream interred

You arrive

And you wave your hand as if she could care

But she can't

Nor can you

The relinquishing and a flickering

Out of loss

This too, this too shall pass away

This too, this too will pass away

Listen, Steven is singing to you

The pain of life you wipe away

This too, this too shall fade away

This too, this pain will pass away

Listen, Steven is singing to us

The pain of life you wipe away

Perhaps depraved is who you are

Why not?

Depraved at least you're not alone

Overcome

By the truth you face

That you can't get up or look up

At the moon

Without throwing up

And it stays the same all the time

Lie and wait

It could stop again

Like a bee

It will die

When it stings you once

And its small bee's head will fall off

This too, this too shall pass away

This too, this pain will pass away

Listen, Steven is singing to you

The pain of life you wipe away