We’re hiding in sketchy houses, digging through rusty mailboxes,
Burning bonfires indoors and only surviving through some proxies.
Her hair on my stomach, she’s counting what we’ve finally earned.
I’m watching with a knot in my stomach, I’m seeing she’s not concerned.
My fingertips pulsate on the skin of my lover, I’m burning alive.
An adrenaline rush captures me, take a knee or a shameful nosedive.
The roof of this shack we’re living in leans on my last sane bone,
The fridge is still empty, even after we’ve gotten enough for the crown.
But the green hair is gone, so are the goons,
Only a brown-haired girl in front of me,
A gun encrusted with runes.
And she wants the riches, not the love I offered.
I reach for the door leading to the river.
The bullet sprints as I topple.
-JW