Forgive Me Chester

Comes a maiden, shoulders laiden with a wrong she cannot right
How in sweet Emmanuel's name am I supposed to sleep tonight?
So I told her Weeping's for the weary, and you don't seem the type
To withhold my happy ending - gimme something better to write

Forgive me, Chester, yesterday's bread
Is all I can afford today
Brother you hang tight, don't let the melancholy bite
And I'll chase the sinners away

Comes a man with scars bone-deep and a conscience far from clean
Though he wore them proud and spoke rather loudly of things I had never seen
See tales like his make the world go 'round, for not even I am immune
To the pain of a life well-lived hiding under a Sunday tune

Forgive me, Chester, yesterday's bread
Is all I can afford today
Brother you hang tight, don't let the melancholy bite
And I'll chase the sinners away

Comes a boy with ribs the cage of a beast I cannot tame
Though the lines on his face left no space for a stranger to write his name
So days I sat with the boy, and not for lack of attempt
Did my pen stay dry and his story remain exempt

Forgive me, Chester, yesterday's bread
Is all I can afford today
Brother you hang tight, don't let the melancholy bite
And I'll chase the sinners away
Brother you hang tight, don't let the melancholy bite
And I'll chase the sinners away