Pocket Song

I came here to be teachable so teach me

I know it seems the lessons seldom ever reach me

for all the years I've been pushing you away

goodbye does not get any easier to say

Now I recall playing candy shop

I sold you erasers, glass beads and bottle tops

an old shirt of yours I've been wearing now for months

thread bare and torn stains on the front

So if my arms can no longer reach you

and my smile can't find you where you lay

there's a pocket in my heart where I'll always keep you

that's where you are today

We do such strange things when we're hurting

our words like animals caged and uncertain

don't you know that she's losing her mother

now she's never gonna have another

So if my arms can no longer reach you

and my smile can't find you where you lay

there's a pocket in my heart where I'll always keep you

that's where you are today

I hold you there today

Riding in the back seat staring down the yellow moon

coming home from your house past the old Grand Union

every time we'd leave you'd blow kisses from the window

and I'd keep waving till we were too far up the road

every time we'd leave you'd blow kisses from the window

yeah you and me were never good at letting go