Parenthetical Girls - Stolen Children lyrics

Were that I the one that died in place of you
Rather than prematurely paralyzed by you
Would you have worn your grief
Like laurels bestowed upon you?
Or misuse the gravity still felt
By all but you?

You know that I wouldn’t mind
I must have lied a thousand times
And how I wanted to die
Just to sanctify my strife
And as that I’m being honest
This was all that I wanted most of the time
Could I offer up the years
I spent resenting you
For the nine years of my life
That went away with you?
On the ground above you, I’d lie
So solemnly contrite
And I could finally forgive you
For every time you saved my life
We may have both come unwanted
But, you were all that she wanted
Most of the time

Through all the years I
Casually exploited you and still
It never occurred to me I was approaching you
Or that the last six years of
My life were overtaking you

With an indifference divine
My life down I will lie
You were only a kid then
Just one of God’s stolen children
Blessed with less time