Bones (Brian's Song)

Sad-sharpened tongue
Why weary legs, I would not
Have pegged you for disaster
What is it about October, what is it
With this weather?
Bone gray red-stalked fields
Pullin' at the things that keep me together

And I
Owed you a song, I owed you a lot
More thought, I owed you a lot
More before you were gone...

We all used you up
But didn't give you enough of us,
Unburdened on your couch, left you
Alone.

Maybe it's October...
Maybe it's this weather...
I seem to recall a lot of years
At this time, all
Unraveling together, and it's

Funny
How I thought that I was
Givin' you the chance but you were
Givin' it to me,
You were giving me one...

When I met you you were way
Too skinny, and you took
Too many drugs, but a few weeks
After I met you, you and I had both straightened up
And I sang at your funeral your favorite song
While we let the balloons go up
And I don't recall if I drove there
By myself

Loose sweaters,
And cold mountains left the
Soul stuck to our bones
And the laughter returns when I recall
Abandoning you in that parking lot
Small houses with large yards left
The Sun stuck to our bones