A Pound Of Flesh

Intro: (2x) my feet plow on from light to dawn   my empty belly and my body aches ain’t hard to take   next to the weight I carry in my chest   a pound of flesh could never tip the scale that I’ve made   I should have stayed but I was never wise   I hear your voices in the wind that cuts the night and I pray to whatever is listening things will be alright oh my boy you’re alive your heart’s still beating   so don’t you mind don’t you mind   we all drift sometimes I can still hear your feet as you ran from the house but knowing you won’t be back   doesn’t mean that I will stop waiting   you told me then: Hold me down or hold me up to the fire   but don’t you dare hold me back. Interlude: (2x) I see your faces in the clouds that scar the night   and I pray to whoever is listening things will be alright then today I wake up feeling easy   and find I’m on the more familiar roads   I got a darkness wrapped inside me   but now it ain’t so hard to let it go so keep a candle burning in the window   I’m almost home