Wherever You Are

Visiting hours Alberta hospital The closer lot was full So I parked around the side Watched the smokers drawing in A breath from miles out of the city And exhaling with a sigh I take my time going in Going in is never easy Never knowing if You're pale or full of life The piston slide of bolted steel And I'm inside again, it's real The cold smell And the aimless wandering And I wait To hold your hands And ask you how You feel today And try to say A hopeful word A hopeful word They've got the puzzles out The TV's showing Dr. Phil And Dorothy's playing Mozart On that out of tune piano We play checkers and lose interest Trying not to voice the darkness That is filling both our heads And I wait Until the hands point down And your food's coming round And it's time to leave Only for me I love you Until next time I'm Intercepted by a young man In a cloud-thin hospital gown Shooting at me with his Tape recorder gun I shake my and laugh But as I'm driving home I start to cry I've been wounded Next time you could be that guy And we wait Till the hands reach down And the healing comes Or it's time to leave For you or me I love you Until next time