Pay In Full

Been a long and lonely winter for my mother
Her mother died slowly
It’s hard to set sail
And harvest with the sea, each day
Static on the tv screen, it’s snowing
It’s going out of season
There’s a wall between
Like crossing open sea
The lady at the front desk
By the waiting room
She knows me by name
This is not a pointed finger
I don’t know, where it would belong
Do you ever wonder at this shadow
We’re pulling out, our cellphones
Dying is for strangers, and I know you see it
We’ll wear our smiles like a cry
If I had the money, I’d set the ledger even
Pay in full, waste my time
Hand-me-downs and wreckage
With the glow of other lives
I gather them like children
Something shows
Dying is for strangers, and I know you see it
We’ll wear our smiles like a cry
If I had the money, I’d set the ledger even
Pay in full, waste my time
Been a long and lonely winter for my mother