We Don't Eat

[Intro]

Okay

[Verse 1]

If this is redemption, why do I bother at all

There's nothing to mention, and nothing has changed

Still I'd rather be working for something, than praying for the rain

So I wander on, 'til someone else is saved

I moved to the coast, under a mountain

Swam in the ocean and slept on my own

At dawn I would watch the sun cut ribbons through the bay

I'd remember all the things my mother wrote

[Chorus]

That we don't eat until your father's at the table

We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust

Never once has any man I've met been able to love

So if I were you, I'd have a little trust

[Verse 2]

Two thousand years, I've been in that water

Two thousand years, I've sunk like a stone

Desperately reaching for nets

That the fishermen have thrown

Trying to find a little bit of hope

Me I was holding, all of my secrets soft and hid

Pages were folded, then there was nothing at all

So if in the future I might need myself a savior

I'll remember what was written on that wall

[Chorus]

That we don't eat until your father's at the table

We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust

Never once has any man I've met been able to love

So if I were you, I'd have a little trust

[Bridge]

Am I an honest man, and true?

Have I been good to you at all?

Oh, I'm so tired of playing these games

We'd just be running down

The same old lines, the same old stories of

Breathless trains and worn down glories

Houses burning, worlds that turn on their own

[Chorus]

So we don't eat until your father's at the table

We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust

Never once has any man I've met been able to love

So if I were you my friend, I'd learn to have just a little bit of trust