Take It Back

I lock the doors in a giant house

I talk to walls and they don’t talk back

It's a funny little barnyard dance

You got the money but you missed your chance

Take it back

Did you ever have it anyway?

I built the monument, I turned the taps

I watch the water drain out of the tank

I keep the seeds all in a sack

And beg the garden to take me back

Take it back

Did you ever have it anyway?

Take it back

Was it ever yours anyway?

This is the fruit to which you gave your life

This is the story that you tell your child

This is the soil razed, your mother’s salt

This is the flower’s grave, its sacrifice

Take it back

Did you ever have it anyway?

Take it back

Was it ever yours anyway?