The Earth Will Turn

[Verse 1]

As the months move on, we hardly speak

Your hair turns to grey and that heart's growing tired and weak

I shovelled the dirt and made a grave for you to sleep in

Because you're dead to me

So take your last breath

From the second I awoke to the earth, I was destined to grow without you and suffer

Selfish, reckless and a fiend; you chose that bastard over your family

[Pre-Chorus]

How can we hope to pick up all the pieces when you're destroying the ground we stand on?

Those drugs that you crave, burned holes in your brain and paved the path for the life you hate

[Chorus]

God damn you for leaving when we needed you

Hell-bent on saving only yourself but that crippling defeat and the cancer you breathe; it finally caught up to you

Now, it's plain to see, I don't need you in the same old way

I don't need you to be here at all

[Verse 2]

A thousand miles away from home but you wouldn't even fucking know

Mother, tell me where you've been?

I refuse to hear any more of this deafening silence

Consider this bridge burned and I'll consider you gone forever

You don't have the backbone to face the ones you left for your dead

You don't have the backbone

This is the last time we'll speak so listen closely

[Pre-Chorus]

How can we hope to pick up all the pieces when you're destroying the ground we stand on?

Those drugs that you crave, burned holes in your brain and paved the path for the life you hate

[Chorus]

God damn you for leaving when we needed you

Hell-bent on saving only yourself but that crippling defeat and the cancer you breathe; it finally caught up to you

Now, it's plain to see, I don't need you in the same old way

I don't need you to be here at all

[Post Chorus]

I don't need you to be here at all

I tried to save you but you slipped away

[Outro]

I was once your son, now you have no part in what I've become

Stranger, you threw it all away for that lesser man

Now you must sleep in the bed you've made

No forgiveness for the things you say

Or the choices that took you away

No fighting for a second chance, the earth will turn and you'll be dead