Born feral

We watched you disappearing like a passing bullet

Up the dirty streets into a nothing day

We never thought it could be us that you were running away from

And you were already gone anyway

Your disappointment it is hard to conceal

So slow to grow and slower to heal

It wasn’t that they wanted to chain you down

It was always that they wanted you to take them with you

The bubbling streams that flow down the hillside

Get slow and lost in the great wide plain

And energy attracts the things that cannot move

There’s so much that fills the slipstream behind you

You were never scared of anything

We thought it was the courage that we all lack

You gave so much of everything

You were never much interested in getting it back

You were born feral – passed from hand to hand like a loaded gun

Ain’t it hard now – to remember just who you were?

Bad dreams – of people you last saw years ago

Still pass before your eyes

The garage is filled with bits of broken machinery

Coffee black and knuckles strong

And they all still turn to look at you

But no one knows what to do with a wild one

But courage is not an everlasting spring

Dry seasons come that you cannot defy

And it’s not where you run but who you run with

You’ll be looking for them until the day you die

You were born feral – passed from hand to hand like a loaded gun

Ain’t it hard now – to remember just who you were?

Bad dreams – of places you last saw years ago

Still pass before your eyes