He Better Be Alive

Because I want to save your soul
He Better Be Alive
tomorrow's watching on my phone
as your trigger shakes
he better be alive
I don't think you're certain
you know what you're hurting or who or why
arms aloft, clawing toward a sympathetic sky
he better be alive
he better be alive

I stay awake all night
till I hear his car pull in
he better be alive
I promise to go on faking
a peaceful plundered life
so long as he's alive
All these shattered bodies
All this changeless dreaming
written on our sidewalks in our sacrifice
he better be alive
he better be alive

Because I have to tell his son and then tell his son
he should be alive
all for selling loosies, the darkness of his beauty, the fear you carry
immutable as the grip choking out a life
he better be alive!
he better be alive

Because I want to save out souls
he better be alive
show me a mother deserving
to have her light stolen
and I'll show you a Baltimore, Carolina, Staten Island fire
he better be alive!
He better be alive!
He Better Be Alive!