Prized Possession

Your mama's gone now dear
Gone where the waters are more clear
She looked too long into the reflecting pool
Tried to pull from it's depths a more precious jewel
Sit and listen to the old owl's lesson
You were her prized possession

The blue-eyed teddy bear
She won for you at the county fair
That you lost in a foreign train station
Made you cry until I bought it's imitation
You loved that fallacy more than the stars that shone
It was your prized possession

I know you're tired of being on the run
The months have passed, a cold prevails, the war is almost won
The sleeping beauty beneath the ice
A second coming second only to Jesus Christ
Cannot hurt us now
She draws no attention
Now I fear my prized possession

Red and blue flashing out my window
How they found us I will never know
Quick girl kill the radio and douse the fire
Remember don't answer no matter what they inquire
The room fills with a yellow tension
They have found my prized possession

Many men in fine-pressed suits
Say I tell more lies than truths
And so child as the courtroom is adjourned
Take no notice of the waters and the red they've turned
Please just hear my last confession
She was my prized possession