Don't Doubt

Now you don't have a word to call this kind of a year
That made you kneel and beg it to turn you right
Two dead birds underneath the headlights
Every sound they ever made to call out they are alive
Every piece of me that breaks, trying to keep from the side of doubt

Don't you doubt
Everybody's seen some winter, don't you take the dark way out
Don't you doubt
Even your breath is breathing for another one
Don't you just take the dark way out

Thin wind ringing in the silver tines
Yeah, it took you by the throat but it wasn't the killing kind
And now you don't tell it like you used to
Every day left in the dark is going to come back to you
Every hope left in your heart is waiting on what you'll do with doubt

Don't you doubt
Everybody's seen some winter, don't you take the dark way out
Don't you doubt
Even your blood is beating for another one
Don't you just take the dark way out

Don't you doubt
The reasons are all dead and they're growing in the ground
So why does it give? Why the take? Why the bitter kiss?
Why the me? Why the anything? Just be the man
Be the child, be the cold midnight soaking the bones of this town
In the breath, in the beak, in the honey taken from every green thing giving sweet
In the call, in the pull, in the want and want, in the sound even your own body knows
All there is, seed and shell, your hands are lined with all that they haven't held