Count me out – I’m not coming: I can’t muster the strength

To exhale: I am drowning, and don’t want to be saved

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I don’t want to be dragged up this thin shot-line to noise

I’m at home here – it’s quiet, but for my mind’s own voice:

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It says I’ve got a mother; I reply: ‘but she knows…’

It says I’ve got a sister yet, she recalls me not

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It says I love the mountains, and to read, and to smile;

I reply: ‘there is nothing that I love – you are lying,’

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It insists I’ve a chance still to undo all my wrongs

But beyond good and evil there is no one I owe;

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It begs that I forgive those who have hurt me to death

But I couldn’t, I’m sorry: I’m not as good as this

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Then, it whispers a prayer to a god in some tongue

And I give it a moment till its voice is all gone

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Gone’s the line I was holding, gone my breath, gone all hope;

The screams of pain from my chest let me know I’ve reached home

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Count me out – I’m not coming: I can’t muster the strength

To keep myself from leaving shallow waters for depth