PlainView Make Yourself

I’ve been pacing And feeling wasted For seven days And came around To the cemetery gates That sit outside of your house And If I make it But couldn’t say it We only stand To crawl back down And watch the cemetery gates Became a part of you now I’d be better off Getting off my knees These nights alone Can’t keep swallowing me Make myself Somebody else Make myself Anyone else Take my patience out back Put it in a body bag Laid to rest With all the mistakes I’ve been keeping on my breath Like a photograph Without the exposure I’m the only one too sick to notice How do I bring nothing into focus I’d be better off Getting off my knees These nights alone Can’t keep swallowing me Make myself Somebody else Make myself Anyone else I apologize for what I’m not The spine I haven’t got My stomach tied in knots The way my presence Rots the room It’s like