Broke (When I Realized)

The house down the road, all gilded and old Well, doe-eyed through the years I watched glad families come and go But never as glad as mine, or the home that we'd grown Until now I'd never longed for that house down the road As I faced the disappointment of my dug up kitchen floor And surrendered to a silence that I could not hear before Of a love that had come and gone decomposed so long ago I was met with the helplessness of being only 12 years old The crack in my mother's voice when he said he would not stay Fed down into her tired heart, she didn't want him to go away And he weight of the many tears she shed Nearly woke me from my bad dream And I broke when I realized that I was yet to fall asleep The crack in my mother's voice when he said he would not stay Fed down into her tired heart, she didn't want him to go away And the weight of the many tears she shed Nearly woke me from my bad dream And I broke when I realized I was yet to fall asleep Oh, I broke when I realized I was yet to fall asleep