i began my doubters mind

when i first saw your branding

we used to call it our “little lie”

it poisoned half the city

while i was trying to hush the cryin’

you were rinsing the family

but i was handed the blood baton

you don’t know what it cost me

sure, you began with his pandering smile

and the same appetite for money

you grew right up with a cartel high

and now nobody tells you nothing

now you’ve been tried for that faceless crime

every one said that it’s funny

did you repent for a fair reprise?

you can’t depend on a dummy

we were made from the same old sky

the same chaos in our veining

you or me? right now? what side?

you will not see the morning

i do not know how to win the prize

i have only learned how to rig it

i love you more than i love myself

but nothing hits like a winner

• Andy Hull

won’t ever talk back

it loves you forever_and_ever

born inside a creek

under the strangling georgia heat

she was a miracle

town of fifty feet

there isn’t much that you can be

the calm is terriblle

pills and gasoline

you are a magnet to their feet

it’s pathological

said “far as I can see, this is the play they’ll bury me, it’s unavoidable”

all of these answers that nobody finds

piling on lie after lie after lie after lie after lie

you’re searching for truth you can pick from the vine

it’s covered up time after time after time after time

daddy wasn’t mean

but, he had left you without leaving

he’s invisible

your mother was the cops

and she was violent in her law

she was impossible

now you’re doing everything to try to prove that you were saved

a fake fanatical

you ended in the creek

where you began

where you were cleaned

the long sabbatical

all of these answers that nobody finds

piling on lie after lie after lie after lie after lie

you’re searching for truth you can pick from the vine

it’s covered up time after time after time after time

it’s covered up time after time after time after time

it’s covered up time after time after time after time