What's coming through is alive.
What's holding up is a mirror.
But what's singing songs is a snake, it is,
Looking to turn my piss to wine.
They're both totally void of hate, and,
Killing me just the same.

The snake behind me hisses,
What my damage could have been.
My blood before me begs me,
Open up my heart again.

And I feel this coming over like a storm again, considerately...

Venomous voice tempts me,
And drains me, bleeds me,
Leaves me cracked and empty,
Drags me down like some sweet gravity.

The snake behind me hisses,
What my damage could have been.
My blood before me begs me,
Open up my heart again.

And I feel this coming over like a storm again, now.
And I feel this coming over like a storm again, now...

I am too connected to you to slip away, fade away.
Days away I still feel you touching me, changing me and considerately killing me.
Considerately killing me.
Considerately killing me.
Considerately killing me.

Without the skin here,
Beneath the storm.
Under these tears now,
The walls came down.

Once the snake is drowned and as I look in his eyes,
My fear begins to fade,
Recalling all of the times I could have cried then.
I should have cried then.

As the walls come down and as I look in your eyes,
My fear begins to fade,
Recalling all of the times I have died, and will die.
It's alright.

I don't mind.
I don't mind.
I don't mind.

I am too connected to you to slip away, fade away.
Days away I still feel you touching me, changing me and considerately killing me.
Considerately killing me, yeah.
Considerately killing me.


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    Most say this song is about his son, name being Devo H. Keenan (initial only)

    "Maynard" is name James picked up at Westpoint, he was born James "H"erbert Keenan.

    He wrote this song while his girlfriend was pregnant with his child, and it is about the storm of emotion bred up inside him over conflicting feelings of perpetuating the abuse he suffered at the hands of his stepfather, and a desire to overcome these worries of "Do unto others, what they have don to you" (perpetuating the cycle of abuse) and raise his child with love. "H" is about Maynard struggling with his soon to collide past and present, and his realization in the face of it, that he can do it.

    Tunes24on October 02, 2012   Link

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