Nearly excavated

Weak and half-sedated

All for someone

Who’ll carelessly crawl from you

Your Daniel’s in the doorway

One foot in the hallway

Thinking of home

His own mother’s arms, nothing new

Blood into the water

Still nearly someone’s daughter, poured through a strain

Hold on for the moment

When the sky above explodes and the rain washes down

Sweep you away from Mattoon

This love not yet existed

Red-faced tears and twisted

Answerеd the call

Your prayers in the night to God knows who

Whеn you were small and friendless

The days with mom were endless

Before she escaped

The same way you’d now like to do

Blood into the water

Still nearly someone’s daughter, poured through a strain

Hold on for the moment

When the sky above explodes and the rain washes down

Sweep you away from Mattoon

A man in oval glasses

Pumping toxic gasses

Into the homes

Of lovers in the night for God

Not careful to be silent

Rags and lighter violently

Stuffed in the frame

To bend back the screen and the rods

His eyes blood red and wild

As mother and her child sleeping apart

Backs turned to the window

As pesticides in billows cascading down

Ceiling to floor of the room

Blood into the water

Still nearly someone’s daughter, poured through a strain

Hold on for the moment

When the sky above explodes and the rain washes down

Sweep you away from Mattoon