Blood Down My Back

Friends watch from afar

Without coming to help

They're watching you fall

With their party hats on.

How can they take all you are

And still ask you for more?

Without thinking, just once, that maybe

What they've taken is more than you are.

The battle each day

Is making them stronger from wins

That you bought, but

Wearing you to the bone with the losses.

Concrete's your friend

As you've taken the dive

The cheering roars up

While they pass out the wine.

It's taken much time, which you'd spend again

To know everything that you know now,

They never trusted you

Though you always had blind faith in them.