Born Feral

We watched you disappearing like a passing bullet
 Up the dirty streets into a nothing day
 We never thought it could be us that you were running away from
 And you were already gone anyway
 Your disappointment it is hard to conceal
 So slow to grow and slower to heal
 It wasn't that they wanted to chain you down
 It was always that they wanted you to take them with you
 The bubbling streams that flow down the hillside
 Get slow and lost in the great wide plain
 And energy attracts the things that cannot move
 There's so much that fills the slipstream behind you
 You were never scared of anything
 We thought it was the courage that we all lack
 You gave so much of everything
 You were never much interested in getting it back
 You were born feral – passed from hand to hand like a loaded gun
 Ain't it hard now – to remember just who you were?
 Bad dreams – of people you last saw years ago
 Still pass before your eyes
 The garage is filled with bits of broken machinery
 Coffee black and knuckles strong
 And they all still turn to look at you
 But no one knows what to do with a wild one
 But courage is not an everlasting spring
 Dry seasons come that you cannot defy
 And it's not where you run but who you run with
 You'll be looking for them until the day you die
 You were born feral – passed from hand to hand like a loaded gun
 Ain't it hard now – to remember just who you were?
 Bad dreams – of places you last saw years ago