you think about his hands at times you shouldn't / pushing you down saying / stay there kid / O kid / how he always calls you kid and it's the closest / this man will come to prayer / O kid O / lord bless his hands and everything / that keeps you here how you say this in your evening prayers / and your mother is suddenly very still she kneels by you / all through the night / and doesn't touch you / you can ignore the splitting, the breaking the thing tearing you apart inside for her / when you stand your legs fall out of your hips / bodies ain't built to stay together kid / your mother doesn't know this / how you wish you didn't bury her with everything else / you wanted to keep / how you wish your brother wouldn't cry so much / crying gets you hit kid / O KID O / you swore nothing would hurt your brother / your blood your sweet sweet agony / by the age of twelve you know he is the only thing that keeps you here / the man and his hands / are gone / but your brother falls asleep on your chest.