Don’t Cry, Don’t Raise Your Eye

 

 

            I don’t know much

            I know a guitar can stop you from killing people

            There’s a certain faith required to keep on living

 

            When I cry I do it alone

            And that’s best

 

            Bought this guitar from the record store for fifty dollars

            It sounds better than anything I’ve ever played

            There are burns and holes in the front

            I don’t even know what that front is called

 

            The twisted and old strings are tired but loved

            My songs sound great

            I love it

 

            The basement flooded

            And yesterday I moved about five yards of dirt

            When I should have been writing

 

            When that broke me down

            I picked her up

            Did some Teenage Wasteland

            And Rockin’ The Suburbs

 

            The dark came in and the day ended

            I didn’t get much done today

            But living