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All Hail Broken Hearts (Decreased)

from The Watercolor EP by Mary Mary Quite Contrary

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I’m not a Preacher’s Niece
Not like before
I tie myself to subtlety
Underneath the machines
I’m told to adore
Those same machines
That have been manufacturing
Sickness to the parents that gave me
These insecurities

All for twenty-eight years
All for twenty-eight exhausted years
Of steel-toed protected excuses
Of why they couldn’t be
What I needed them to be

One’s for one and two’s for two
And three can’t get ahead
Four is disconnected from the couch and from the bed
Yes, four is out of love and out of patience
I miss three more than I miss inspiration
Three is on her way to another helpless condition
While one sits all alone in such temptation

So I left them, just how I’ll remember them
So, I left them, just how I remembered them
Divided completely

My Uncle tried to get us to go with God
We said we needed the sleep
Shit, we’d been working for so long
My Grandma said she’s pray for us
And when my cousin took me in,
My Grandma took on her Granddaughter
About the Gospel of her true religion

So, this is sensitivity
This is the example you chose to set for me
While I cried on the mattress
Too consumed with all the blasphemous
I realized there’s no fight in me
To destroy the beliefs
For which you’ve bled so desperately
And that was the day I let myself drift
Into what you always feared me to be
I am what you fear me to be

And one is on his way to church
And two forgets what it means to work
And three is filling me up with empty promises
While I still wonder if five and six will ever coexist
Will we ever coexist
So, I left them, just as I remember them
So, I left them, just how I’ve remembered them
Divided completely carrying on about the Trinity
Divided completely, so this is what you call family
Divided completely

There’s the good book, the blood, here’s the hook, where’s the flood
You got the good book, the blood, here’s the hook, where’s the flood
Here’s the hook

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from The Watercolor EP, released November 5, 2009

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