Stone Death

It's funny how
We lie to ourselves
Convinced we believe
The world round
Instead of ground
Under our feet

Under starlight
I stalked the earth
Looking for the taste of you
Because I had found what I need
And lost what I'd found

To feed the famine
I followed strings
Of glowing spider web
To your scent
Band t-shirts
On someone else's back
But a shade or a trace
Just was never enough
Those vestiges not the same
As the real thing
And I knew I'd left something
Behind me back there

And I'm stone deaf
From the truth
Stone death
Stoned to death
By the weight of it
Buried underfoot
By these rocks like truths

Reborn like Christ
We made a monster
In the shadow
Of the statue
Of our former destructive creation
Like the morning star
Brighter than the night sky
That came before
And hollow without it
Like I've become

It's funny how
I lied to myself
Convinced I believed
The world round
Instead of seeing ground
Under my feet
I stumbled onto something
Accidental and out of time
And I lost all good words for

And I'm stone deaf
From the truth
Stone death
Stoned to death
By the weight of it
Buried underfoot
By these rocks like truths

And you don't even know it
You walk light on a cloud
Feather footed
You dance around
That old town
While I'm weighted down
Buried underground
Waiting for you
To come back
And murder it
Like Burroughs with his
Roulette gun game parlor trick

While I ache
Longing for just a taste
But then I always
End up embittered by it
And wishing you
Would just go away
To leave me to fall apart
And tear out this futile
Beast and its futile heart

And I'm stone deaf
From the truth
Stone death
Stoned to death
By the weight of it
Buried underfoot
By these rocks like truths

Death toll
Rattle of a calling card
The waterwheel turns
The evolution from where we are
To where we were
Torn to shreds and dissolved
Maybe tomorrow
After the funeral
Once these sights and sounds
Are burned like some flag
I used to be believe in
We will be reborn
Into something newly recycled

But for today
I'm stone deaf
From the sound of you
Stoned to death
By the weight these truths