We Don't Eat Lyrics - Early In The Morning - James Vincent Mcmorrow

If this is redemption, why do I bother at all 

There's nothing to mention, and nothing has changed 

Still I'd rather be working at something, than praying for the rain 

So I wander on, till someone else is saved 

I moved to the coast, under a mountain 

Swam in the ocean, slept on my own 

At dawn I would watch the sun cut ribbons through the bay 

I'd remember all the things my mother wrote 

That we don't eat until your father's at the table 

We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust 

Never once has any man I've met been able to love 

So if I were you, I'd have a little trust 

Two thousand years, I've been in that water 

Two thousand years, sunk like a stone 

Desperately reaching for nets 

That the fishermen have thrown 

Trying to find, a little bit of hope 

Me I was holding, all of my secrets soft and hid 

Pages were folded, then there was nothing at all 

So if in the future I might need myself a savior 

I'll remember what was written on that wall 

That we don't eat until your father's at the table 

We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust 

Never once has any man I've met been able to love 

So if I were you, I'd have a little trust 

Am I an honest man and true 

Have I been good to you at all 

Oh I'm so tired of playing these games 

We'd just be running down 

The same old lines, the same old stories of 

Breathless trains and, worn down glories 

Houses burning, worlds that turn on their own 

So we don't eat until your father's at the table 

We don't drink until the devil's turned to dust 

Never once has any man I've met been able to love 

So if I were you my friend, I'd learn to have just a little bit of trust