Johko - If I Were a Rag Lyrics

If I were a used up dusty old rag
I'd throw it away in a paper bag
A frayed piece of cloth
Stained and torn apart
No dirge or lamentation for this shag
Every fiber soaked with sweat
The drops of aggregate regret
The stench is in the stitch
And I would throw it in a ditch
This fabric made of holes
And unpaid debt

No thread that has escaped abuse
No square inch of any use
In this devil's handkerchief
No doubt it would unravel if
You somehow tried to use it as a noose

But if maybe in the sun it dried
And met another face that cried
A tear without a shoulder
Or a confidant beholder
Crusted stiffness could be vivified

If I were a used up dusty old rag
I'd throw it away in a paper bag
A frayed piece of cloth
Stained and torn apart
No dirge or lamentation for this shag