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