Drinking From The Poisoned Well Lyrics - Tourniquet

Fist through a wall - foot through a door 

Just another day for me to abhor 

There's a wall in my plan for you today 

There's a door with your name where it lay 

Years of hateful thoughts will get you back 

I'll be at peace soon 

You think you're punishing me by your anger 

But it's you serving the jail sentence 

Heart turned to stone suffering all alone 

Calibrating how hatred can sink the power of forgiveness 

Anger needs a place to be buried 

Anger needs a process for its gravestone 

The time has come to speak of many things 

Not shoes and ships and sealing wax not cabbages and Kings 

But the way your raging words and actions 

Gouge a monumental chasm between us 

If I could only help you to see what I see 

As you push away the ones who love you 

Your world is closing in on you 

The once many friends become the reluctant few 

And when the few that remain choose rather to abstain 

You'll be left alone with all the pain 

And you'll ponder at length how a day turned a year 

And the years rolled along till nobody was near 

Broken before the One who understands 

That it's hard to let go of familiar land 

But you've got to leave the safe ground behind 

A better place is waiting where there's peace of mind 

Now that you've come to realize 

That chronic anger has a steep price 

Taking more than you can afford to give 

Stealing the joy that you need to live