I Will Not Sing A Hateful Song

We've become the outer order

Live our lives along the border

Get up in ease and face our other

To name the sign you've been born under



I was bitten by a man

Trespassing in a psychic state

What well-healed boy

What simple man

Left such a long and living wake



I will not sing a hateful song

Though it's in me to sing

I know to drink the blood is wrong

And undue error brings



Born to proud, self-conscious people

Living free of consequence

Speak strange words louder than a witness

And damn the dead in self-defense



But I was also born and raised

To always speak and listen clear

To know the last sound that I make

Could be the last sound that I hear



I will not sing a hateful song

Though it's in me to sing

I know to drink the blood is wrong

And undue error brings