How to Cope

I'm trying to be strong mama
Like the trees we planted when I was young
The same girl, who passed a graveyard
And said a prayer for the skeletons

I'm trying to keep my chin up old man
You told me to never let em see me cry
The same girl who knew how to cope
When 'Hello' meant the last goodbye

Oooh
Oooh

I just need to stay off of that street
At least until I'm strong enough to not sink to my knees
But every heartbreak song, like the falling leaves
Are drifting through the branches of the very same trees
Of this rotten town, this rotten old temple
I said I'd keep away if only I was able
But every heartbreak song, like the falling leaves
Are drifting through the branches of the very same trees

Oooh
Oooh

I'm trying to be strong baby
Unlike the bones that refuse to fuse
Or heal back crooked and awkward
Say a prayer for the pulverized
I'm trying to remain standing
In the plot of toppled tombstones
The same bones that held me upright
Clinking in the trees up above like wind chimes

Oooh
Oooh

I just need to stay off of that street
At least until I'm strong enough to not sink to my knees
But every heartbreak song, like the falling leaves
Are drifting through the branches of the very same trees
Of this rotten town, this rotten old temple
I said I'd keep away if only I was able
But every heartbreak song, like the falling leaves
Are drifting through the branches of the very same trees

Oooh
Oooh

I couldn't resurrect incinerated timber
But I tell you that it wasn't for a lack of trying
Tears hiss, as they hit the hot embers
I challenge you to do the same without crying
Care hands digging through hot, burning ashes
Desperate to find a molten locket or ring
A tree could sway and sigh, as if it knew passion
But even blackened branches green up in Spring

I just need to stay off of that street
At least until I'm strong enough to not sink to my knees
But every heartbreak song, like the falling leaves
Are drifting through the branches of the very same trees
Of this rotten town, this rotten old temple
I said I'd keep away if only I was able
But every heartbreak song, like the falling leaves
Are drifting through the branches of the very same trees

Oooh