A Pound of Flesh

My feet plow on From light to dawn My empty belly and my body aches Ain't hard to take Next to the weight I carry in my chest A pound of flesh Could never tip the scale that I've made I should have stayed But I was never wise I hear your voices in the wind That cuts the night And I pray to whatever is listening Things'll be alright Oh my boy you're alive Your heart's still beating So don't you mind Don't you mind We all drift sometimes I can still hear your feet As you ran from the house Knowing you won't be back Doesn't mean that I will stop waiting You told me then: "Hold me down, hold me up to the fire But don't you dare hold me back!" I see your faces in the clouds That scar the night And I pray to whoever is listening Things'll be alright Then today I wake up feeling easy And find I'm on a more familiar road I got a darkness wrapped inside me But now it ain't so hard to let it go So leave your candle burning in the window I'm almost home