Mud and Worry

If you run fast over the steely roots

and through the tangled wit of the woods,

A path may widen around you

And lead you right to the truth

We've all been through the mud and worry

But some have clean hearts and some have dirty

You have to choose what you say carefully

You find the truth slippery in your lies to me

I want proof behind all of the darling words

Because soon they'll burn right through that tongue of yours

In the dust of and not the ash

For you were sleeping not burning alert

And you were a heap of wire work and muck

Losing it in your bedroom unsure

Wine will be my sanguine bandage

But some have clean hearts and some of savage

You have to choose what you say carefully

You find the truth slippery in your lies to me

I want proof behind all of the darling words

Because soon they'll burn right through that tongue of yours

One half clean heart

One half ravaged

[One half] clean heart

One half absent