Indiana

There's a clinic by a lake
Where we used to set our ducks free
When their feathers would grow stiff
And we'd grow tired

So we'd watch them from the bank
Of the water by the clinic
Just hoping for the best
That they'd survive

I always wondered if the doctor
Of the clinic ever saw us
Through the window of his office
Where he lived

And I wondered on the day
When he had to call my father
To tell him something's there
That wasn't there before

Indiana, do you know
What he thought about that night
Like was he thinking about dying or coming home
Indiana, did you tell him, oh
Did you tell him it was going to be alright

My upstairs neighbor was a dancer
I liked following her footsteps
Keeping time across my ceiling
And her floor

But as I followed, my phone rang
It was my mother for my father
And I couldn't hear the dancer
Anymore

Indiana, do you know
What he thought about that night
Like was he thinking about dying or coming home
Indiana, did you tell him, oh
Did you tell him it was going to be alright

In the morning, right before
He hit the hotel floor