St. Jude Street

There's a deep blue sadness
At the house on St. Jude Street
It hangs in the air
And makes it difficult to breathe
You can feel it when you walk inside
As if the walls themselves confide
About the deep blue sadness
At the house on St. Jude Street

There's an empty closet
An aging dog to feed
And a big front lawn
That's filled with uncut grass and weeds
A man has left his home
A woman's on her own
In the deep blue sadness
At the house on St. Jude Street

Sometimes she thinks she felt more alone
When he was lying in their bed
Space around her like a chasm
That he widened in his head
But denial told her love was there
Beyond all reason and all doubt
Until the day he sat her down
And said he'd be moving out

Soon a U-Haul truck
Pulled into the sloping drive
And when he backed it out
The house to her seemed twice its size
Now through her fog and a tear-damp sheet
Acceptance mingles with defeat
And the deep blue sadness
At the house on St. Jude Street

He's got a bachelor apartment way downtown
And a midlife crisis car
And he worries about alimony
And splitting bank accounts apart
When her anger finally fills her up
Tearful late-night calls will cease
Then they'll find a way to get away
From the lives they used to lead

As their lawyers fight
They each look for someone who
They can count on to start the cycle in anew
Someone's loss is someone's gain
Someone will paint over the pain
Of the deep blue sadness
At the house on St. Jude Street
The deep blue sadness
At the house on St. Jude Street