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Wait for the Sirens to Pass

from This is Why by Atwood

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Things seem so opposite
More and more
Everyday

I'm asleep when I'm wide awake
And the sun shines
When it rains

Feels like I'm lying when
I'm telling the truth
And it hurts
How it pains

When they ask how I'm doing
And i just smile in reply
I say "Thanks
I'm okay"

I'm just stumblin'
I'm just drunk again
It's not my fault anyway

Just some song I wrote
Just some heart I broke
Another ball and chain

My father put down his guitar
And he spoke
His refrain

He said "You can write songs 'till you're blue in the face
But son nothin's
Gonna change"

And I think of that now as I'm writing this down
trying to catch
Your gaze

With some pretty words, wrapped in metaphors
Hoping I can leave you
On a page

Take what's killing me,
Light it with kerosene,
Turn and walk away

May each verse I write
Be my last compromise
To simply numb the pain

Because you know as well as I do
That these things will fade

I know a woman who lives alone
In a house
Down the way

Who wears a beautiful gown
And a thorny crown
And hangs paintings without frames

She waters her plants
And feeds her shepard dog that's locked up
With no name

And every now and again
Something falls and breaks
And darkness leads the way
'Cause when her husband died
There was no blinding light
Just an empty grave

Now her hallowed god
Is just a calloused fraud
And no one's ever saved

Sometimes I hear her sing songs so true
They remind me
Of a place

That I've never been
But her voice captures me, and I'm forced
To retrace

The steps to her door
Where I hide and listen, 'till her dog barks
From its cage

And she straightens up
Looks right at me, and demands
In a wispy way

She says "Who are you?"
"What are you going to do?"
Come out and show your face

I said "Ma'm I've tried
My entire life
To try and answer that phrase

But if you sing another song,
I think we'd be
Okay

And should we all die tomorrow
At least we had
Today

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from This is Why, released March 24, 2012

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