Crooked Spine - Covey

Hey, Mrs Crooked Spine, walking ominously

Swinging right leg after left

You’re drinking bottle after bottle

Of uncertainty it seems

But you’ve had metal rods put in your back

So show them what that means

Yeah, your ex-lover owes you money

And I don’t think he’s coming through

'Cause he’s a scumbag alcoholic

Lost his way at twenty-two

He’s a spineless ordinary

Without a single rod

To hold his back up straight

Stop acting like you don’t deserve happiness

I saw you trapped inside a cave

As I was resting on a hill

Hans was in there with you too

The water rising for the kill

I tried to pull you out but couldn’t get you

Through that two foot gap

I walked away and paced in panic

I wasn’t sure of what to do

The dead moss resting by an isolated

Boulder was a clue

Sometimes there’s no way out

Sometimes you drown your loved ones there to watch

Stop feeling like you were never important to me

Strong spine

You’re lighting your whole world on fire

Beat up and bruised like you used to be

S-shaped vertebrae

You got stories to tell the world

Don’t be so scared to tell them

What you’ve been through

I’m sure you’re fed up with the distance

As much as me and if not more

But we don’t show that much resistance

Never settled up the score

Maybe we’re cold and somewhat callous

From all the bullshit we’ve endured

Like around addiction

That leaves you screaming at the walls

As we deliberate between letting it ring

And picking up the calls

To a slurred out conversation

Built with shame and brutal self-deprecation

Stop talking like you don’t deserve anything

Strong spine

You’re lighting your whole world on fire

Beat up and bruised like you used to be

S-shaped vertebrae

You got stories to tell the world

Don’t be so scared to tell them

What you’ve been through

I know I wasn’t good to you

When we were growing up

And I blame myself for doing damage

To your confidence

I wish I could take it back

Despite how much we’ve overcome

I was such an angry child

But that’s no excuse to lean on

You worried endlessly for days

About the scar upon your back

I said that scar was something special

No matter how some kids react

You have spinal reinforcement

So you get out there and you show them

What that means