I am Nothing More Than I Ever Could Have Ever Been

You rested your nervous head
In the fold of my neck
Said you feared the failure

That followed you
From every place you've been
To every place you'll go

You cut your ties to let them know
That this is far enough
That this is far enough
But every bridge you burn
Can be rebuilt again

Still I have noticed
That far away look
That has settled into your eyes
It is pouring out of you by the hour now
Like a river swollen by a season of hard rain

There is nowhere else for it to go
So it continually swallows itself
And swells again
And swallows

What's done is done, is done, is done

You cannot shoulder the weight
Of the choices you've made
So you bury your face
In the depths of your shame