Wednesday Lyrics - A Blessing And A Curse - Drive By Truckers

There was something in the envelope she passed him 

That weighed more to him than paper and some ink 

It had the hint of something darker and a hint of something sweet 

And a little extra glue right on the tip 

There was something in the pain that shot right through him 

As he climbed up to the place he called his home 

They say, every man's house should be his palace 

But his castle stank of cat shit and alone 

So he opened it and found a faded picture 

Of a girl, he's never met but somehow seen 

Like a memory of a dream from early childhood 

Like a virgin's idea of release 

She said, "I can bend my arms until they're backward 

But you can't bend your will to take in mine 

And I could hold my breath until next Wednesday 

And still be doing fine" 

He was sad in ways that he couldn't tell her 

Though she tried to make his sadness all her own 

He couldn't see the use in spreading sadness 

So he took his dark depression and went home 

She saw things in him that he never bargained 

But it wasn't enough to save either one of them 

Because she took all that sadness one step further 

And left him all alone to face the end