4th Floor

4th floor and I see you (NICU)

Through a pane between us and wires and tubes

How intensely I care for you

But there's nothing that I can do

Nothing that I can do

The first night she sleeps alone

The other side of town I weep alone

And pray to god that I do not know

That you're coming home

You're coming home

We'll take you home

Please let us take her home

Breathe, fill your lungs!

Be still, your shaking bones

I would die if it would soothe your hurting, love

You're hurting, love

She choked out a first cry, a weaker second and then fell quiet

Cut from my love and whisked away

And I'm drowning in another's pain

Now I know my mothers pain

A new hurt that humbles me

Morphine shakes that crumble me

All of the blood I have I'd bleed

If it might change something

If at last you'd freely breathe

Fill your lungs!

Be still, your shaking bones

I would die if it would soothe your hurting, love

Old torments set ablaze

Only ashes now remain

Turn to sludge in the first rain

And are washed away

Breathe, fill your lungs!

Be still, your shaking bones

I would die if it would soothe your hurting, love

Come home!

Please come home

I would die if it would soothe your hurting, love

Soothe your hurting, love

You're hurting, love

You're hurting, love