Edward Sexton - Good God, I Wish I Cared

I'm sorry for the lack of sincerity
It's just I don't deal in the real world
But here take my mythology
It's all I've got left

Can you put a price on that
Because it feels like it for sale
Pin me up against the wall
And stamp out every beautiful detail

And I have left my heart on the floor
Of a bedroom I'll never go back in,
Where i spent every night staring at your ceiling
Feeling used, wondering what you're feeling

Well something was missing by the time I woke
Perhaps I've gone as far as I've dared
You've got me in stitches but there wasn't a joke
Good, God, I wished I cared

I know you can hear the mercury in my mouth
but that's just the poison on my mind
I picked it up as I headed south
With Sixteen stories and all the souls I could find

You ask on the phone how far I got
I say some town I'm just passing through
The scene is great, the streets are busy
With Venuses and motorcycle crews

And the leather boys are running crazy
Outside my hotel window
One shouts what is lost shall be found
and all I see is mine

He sees me alone and says join us
But I just stood there and stared
There's glory in dying for the boys
Good God I wished I cared

I got a drink with him one time
He told me I'd be there the night he died.
Now the sun is setting on a bar room evening
And he's caught in a robbery outside

The street rang with shots as he hid
In the frame of the infirmary door
With nothing and hope, he puts up a fight
But the gun to his heart pushed him to the floor

The sparks of life left and I was alone
I finished my drink but I had nowhere to go
The bartender asked if I had anyone waiting for me
I thought of you, and answered no

You can see it in the poor boy's eyes he was scared
As he took three shots to the chest
Then two more just to be sure he was dead
Good God, I wished I cared

Written by:
Edward Sexton

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