Jasper, Laramie and Waco, Where Did You All Go?

Cut into my body and blood will come.
Cut into my heart and I'm not sure what will flow.
My memories are haunting,
my nostalgia painful,
and someday everything kill me.
This I know.

Strip my flesh like you once stripped my dignity.
Come back to give what was taken
but do it quickly...

Leave us dead and unmoved.
Leave me frozen in your bitter mood.

I've lived seventeen years clean,
never wanted to hurt anyone or anything.
And I've left you in the past where you seem to live comfortably.

Despite my city's unswept streets
I'm pretty well kept.
Though I have a scratch on my innocence or two
you'll see it's not as bad as it seems.
Oh I'm tearing at my sanity's seams.