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When the Justice Comes

from Enjoy the Eclipse! by Dead Selves

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When the justice comes

You will pick out all your stitches just to try to heal in spite of it
You will fumble at your ribcage just to find out what’s inside of it
But how free, how free, how free are you gonna be
When the justice comes

When all the nooses can’t quite make themselves go tight
Let there be some peace there in the slack
The cracks that stumble drunk all down the sidewalk
Let them think to double back
And all the roads that take us where we need to go
Let them be short, and in the seconds in between
Let’s trace symbols in our seats that only we know what they mean

When we tell the ones who love us our new names
Like a signature we’ve picked, let them pick it up
And see it as a gift
And when we find another skin sitting just above
The flesh that we’ve been scratching at, let us feel like
We could maybe start again
Let us feel like we could maybe start again

Maybe we could take some time to figure out what all this means
Maybe we could take a day or maybe two or three
But by the end of the summer we’d better know damned well
Just who we’re gonna be
Maybe we could kiss the neighborhood boys
And when we’re done with all their lips
Just this once they won’t pretend that they forget
And when they tell themselves the truth
Find a better skin, too
Maybe all our scattered flesh might just be whole again

If against the odds we make it through intact
Will we live covered like a scar, like we were always gonna be
Just who we are
Or if we leave ourselves exposed, naked in the cold
Will it matter what our names were
Will it matter who we told
And if justice comes on heavy like the sun
Will we burn up at the sight of it, will we burn up at the sight of it
Will we burn up at the sight until we’re gone?

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from Enjoy the Eclipse!, released September 21, 2018

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