Lay Down Your Weapons

from Adult Film by Tim Kasher

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Lay down your weapons,
you don't wanna hurt no one.
And anyway, what's done is done -
sure, it was wrong, but blood will beget blood.
You really want to rake me over the coals?
Your past is in the trash
but the bags are still out on the curb,
mere feet from our happy home.

Mine was a landmine
I left out in the unkempt yard:
cigarette butts stained with lip gloss.
You had been away on a four day weekend.
I could've picked them up, but what's the fuss?
You could use the clue,
and hey - they could've been my sister's.
You don't know, and it's killing you.

Lay down your weapons,
you don't know how to use that thing.
Are you even sure which way it's pointing?
You're familiar with the first to cast a stone.
Your motives are too shaky to aim true.
The problem lies not in that we fight
but the weapons that we choose.

So, lay your weapons down.

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from Adult Film, released October 8, 2013

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Tim Kasher Los Angeles, California

Cursive / The Good Life / Me. Fourth solo album, Middling Age, out in April 2022 on 15 Passenger Records!

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