Tandem - Protest The Hero

Everyone knows that Cancer

Takes bites of every family

And it eats up families whole

Dance around the issue

Take issue with the answers provided

The past few years radiate with treatment

But to every day she’ll put her cap on and greet them

She’s got demons, but you’ll never meet them

Yeah we hope one day that she can finally beat them all

She laughs for us

She laughs, so we don’t worry

She smiles through the pain

And keeps the details blurry

My intentions are not to expose

The depths of her trouble aren’t mine to disclose

But like evening rain on the petal of a rose

It drips down to the earth and begins to compose

And if there’s one thing that remains

So crystal clear to us

It’s that the wandering hands of the gods

Are so goddamn mysterious

Like there could be a justification

For the lives, it takes and the lives that it’s taken

This isn’t a eulogy

Or a requiem

Just some words I’ve sketched out

Cause I haven’t said them

This isn’t about her father or brother

Just a few simple words so she knows that I love her

And tragedy will never disaffect her

I hope she knows how much I respect her

My intentions are not to expose, in verse or in prose

The depths of her troubles aren’t mine to disclose

But like evening rain on the petal of a rose

It drips down to the earth and begins to compose

A song worth singing

A wound that keeps on stinging

And one sinking feeling

That’s always worth clinging onto

And a stone in a glass house

That’s always worth slinging

She laughs for us

She laughs, so we don’t worry

She smiles through the pain

And keeps the details blurry

My intentions are not to expose

The depths of her trouble aren’t mine to disclose

But like evening rain on the petal of a rose

It drips down to the earth and begins to compose

Saints walk the earth

They don’t patrol the skies

They’re the people right behind you

Riding tandem through the night

It’s the comfort that’s discovered

Between two sets of eyes

It’s the hand that stills the other

That shakes like candlelight

Like candlelight