Prowl Great Cain Lyrics - All Eternal's Deck - Mountain Goats

Gather jewels from graveyards when I get home bury them again 

Wonder if you'll ever get the chance to ask me why I turned you in 

I save my own skin but I live to fight, I live to fight another day 

Still remember how brave you were when they came to take you away 

And I feel guilty but I can't feel ashamed 

Prowl through empty fields great Cain 

Thought I'd seen a ghost up on the boulevard between the broken bricks 

It's hard to tell a gifts of the spirit from clever counterfeits 

Sleep walk through my days and mark the hours until these dark times fade 

Like a caterpillar crawling out along the surface of the blade 

And I feel guilty but I can't feel ashamed 

Prowl through empty fields great Cain 

Rummage through the gutted storehouse now and lick the sweat from my brow 

Saw the trucks roll out the morning not sure when they're coming back again 

Feel the prickings of my conscience in my chest every now and then 

Sometimes a great wave of forgetfulness rises up and blesses me 

And other times the sickness howls and I despair of any remedy 

And I feel guilty but I can't feel ashamed 

Prowl through empty fields great Cain