New Gospel

I could hear the TV playing

As I was coming up the stair

Loud enough the dead could hear

You've been watching all your

Game shows

Trying to find a code

Like there's some trick

That they don't want you to know

You've been stashing all your empties

In the neighbor's bins

Like the landlord doesn't know

You're drinking

You've been sermonizing every day

Just to keep your ghosts away

It's a wonder that you find

So much to say

Oh

You need a new gospel

Because the bottom fell out

The old one long ago