hymnal of decay

Won't you look here, listen now
As the apple's falling next to the tree
Won't you sit and hear the sound
Of my father's sins following me

Following me, following me
Following me down
Swallowing me, swallowing me
Just like gravity

Won't you touch me, I'm reaching out
From underneath these dying leaves
Can't you taste the bitter shroud
I've been wearing since I turned 18

Smothering me, it's smothering me
Hanging in this vapor cloud
Falling to the sea, down to the sea
My daddy and me

Can't you read my letters that I wrote
With a shaky hand and a borrowed pen
And a heartache in my throat
Won't you stop at my cross beside the interstate
Where I yelled my curses to the moon
And all she said was

You are your father, you are your mother
And there will never be another
Who discovers the depths you do
You're going down beneath the ocean
Without a sound
No one else around
Down like gravity, down to the sea
Down with your father and your sisters
And your brothers and your mother
And all the others, all down to the sea
Where the apple fell right off the tree

Won't you look here, hear me howl
Like a beast at the moon
Nothing left but wax and feathers
In what used to be a little girl's room
The sins of the father caught her much too soon