Don’t Doubt
Now you don't have a word to call this kind of a year
That made you kneel and beg it to turn you right.
Two dead birds underneath the headlights-
Every sound they ever made to call out they are alive,
Every piece of me that breaks, trying to keep from the side of doubt.
Don't you doubt.
Everybody's seen some winter- don't you take the dark way out.
Don't you doubt.
Even your breath is breathing for another one-
Don't you just take the dark way out.
Thin wind ringing in the silver tines-
Yeah, it took you by the throat but it wasn't the killing kind.
And now you don't tell it like you used to.
Every day left in the dark is going to come back to you.
Every hope left in your heart is waiting on what you'll do with doubt.
Don't you doubt.
Everybody's seen some winter- don't you take the dark way out.
Don't you doubt.
Even your blood is beating for another one-
Don't you just take the dark way out.
Don't you doubt. The reasons are all dead and they're growing in the ground. So why does it give? Why the take? Why the bitter kiss? Why the me? Why the anything? Just be the man. Be the child. Be the cold midnight soaking the bones of this town. In the breath, in the beak, in the honey taken from every green thing giving sweet. In the call, in the pull, in the want and want, in the sound even your own body knows. All there is, seed and shell- your hands are lined with all that they haven't held.