Sleeves

 [Chorus] x2
Keep rolling up my sleeves past my elbow
Roll up my heart in the folds, still felt though
Just my forearms and morons. How can I go on
I'm asking for more nights and more dawns

[Verse 1]
I am Jack's cold sweat running down his arms
Past the bracelets and the charms and the scarred harm
When I feel the shittiest is when I try to be the wittiest
The prettiest girls are the one I'm trying to get intimate
Impress them with the psyche and mic, B
Writing poems and stories just so they might like me
But I figured what's more important is that I like me
So I'm tooting my horn like Beep beep near all the wily
Coyotes howling at the moon sitting locked in my room
Freed soon when hammers hit anvils: boom
Blacksmith make me some armor, grant me honor
Anything in this fucking life just to make me stronger
Excuse the language, but this is real and uncut
I'm asking why and who when they focus on the what
And the how and I'm stuck in the now
Wondering how am I supposed to make life perfect when I can't get my rhymes down?

 [Chorus] x2
Keep rolling up my sleeves past my elbow
Roll up my heart in the folds, still felt though
Just my forearms and morons. How can I go on
I'm asking for more nights and more dawns

[Verse 2]
This is me not giving a fuck: rolling up my sleeves
After all of this I'm going to get me some sleep
All the girls in my life causing me the strife and the light
When I imagined you would be wife and I'd be the night
1.) We are just too good for each other
2.) I'm looking at the stars and still stuck in your gutters
3.) When you sing, I fall in love with you
4.) There's so many metaphors that hold true
5.) I wish we could still talk like the old days
6.) I'm sick but you cured my old ways
7.) You knock me out with your orange scarf
8.) Who knew you would make things this hard?
9.) Goddamn it. All sorts of wonderful
10.) What did the hunter stole?
11.) Give me directions to your heart
12.) Show me yours and I'll show you my scars
13.) I still roll up my sleeves
13.) Do you still believe?
13.) Know that I still bleed
13.) Keep your head up. Love me.

 [Chorus] x2
Keep rolling up my sleeves past my elbow
Roll up my heart in the folds, still felt though
Just my forearms and morons. How can I go on
I'm asking for more nights and more dawns