A Year Times Ten

This old House of mine is painted in Black.
Ever since you left it’s shattered and cracked.
I am just a shell of what I used to be.
Ever since you left I do nothing but grieve.
I’m going to sleep, I’m going to dream
And when I wake and you’re not here.
I’m going to wait if it takes the life of men.
I will wait a year times ten.
I will wait a year times ten
I will wait a year times ten.
I passed by your mama’s up in Johnson City.
I searched and looked again for any sign of you.
Well I know that you’re gone but my heart just can’t contain it.
I feel you in the rain and I just can’t explain it.
I’m going to sleep, I’m going to dream
And when I wake and you’re not here.
I’m going to wait if it takes the life of men.
I will wait a year times ten
I will wait a year times ten
I will wait a year times ten
I know that when we parted you said you would return,
And our home is like a box, there’s nothing left to burn.
Why do I sit awaiting like a sinking, skipping stone?
Your memory’s alive, that’s all that I own.
I’m going to sleep, I’m going to dream
And when I wake and you’re not here.
I’m going to wait if it takes the life of men.
I will wait a year times ten
I will wait a year times ten
I will wait a year times ten