Before you wake up
Before you wake up
Before you wake up
Do you smell a very faint
Odor of heaviness and malaise
The eldest son
Of ten sons
I carried your pain
Your hands beat me
Never stopped beating me
Ran through woods
Through cities
And streets and water
You thought you saw my back
Somewhere
But it was never me
I was born in May
And you named me Nobody
But every night
The memories throbbed
Of your hands
How they beat me
Never stopped beating me
The eldest son
Of ten sons
Now I have someone
Dad, he made it
But your genes live in me
Ran through woods
Through cities
And streets and water
You thought you saw my back
Somewhere
And suddenly, it was me
The last thing you see
Is he who you named Nobody