Blue

Standing alone with a bottle of wine
Will you come back to me?
You'll try
Holding my hand, the tide moves still
Can we go back to that?
You'll try
My love, oh-oh-oh

Telling the story
Your father spits your mother in the eye
Took out the wooden spoon
Hit us real hard
Go to your room, and don't you dare cry

Light the candle from a distance
I'll get through the long and lonely nights
Blue's the name my mother gave me
Blue in her womb
Held me in her arms
Arms

Held your grandfather's hand as he died
Wrinkled with his ancient lies
Father's scared, can't stay up late
I'm screaming down the line
All he hears are her cries

Don't return my calls
Don't defend my blows
Find the reason why
Come on, baby, we can get through it all
The world is burning, we're still turning 'round

Growing flowers, I was hoping you'd return
No, not a word, not a sound
You booked the flight and then your feet got cold
You turned me down

Called to your family asking what the fuck was going on
Down on my knees
Called to my family when the hour got too rough for you
She's gonna take her life, and what are you to do?
Don't you run away, don't you be scared now

It's not the time for us
We've got the answers
We held the light of trust
And all the other women looking up to us
We could have done them proud

And now my voice has gone silent
Sucked the name out from my bones
I don't know what I'm called
The walls of everything I ever knew
The sound of standing up to you

I'm just another in your crowd
We got the line of love tattooed upon the finger with the holy vow
What are we doing now?
You wanna have them all, you ask about the times before
Did I love them more?
Talk to my madness

All the rock and roll, the dreams and all the screams
Are they still calling out your name?
We walked the streets of New York City
Talked for hours, holding hands
We got so close we couldn't breathe

I wandered all about the homeless poets
Spitting flaming truths about the world
We fell
We stood alone amongst the falling snow
The winter that you knew so well
Death

Blush, ah, ah, ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah
Ah, ah, hmm
Oh, oh, hmm
Ah-ah-ah-ah