The Burden

This aint no schoolhouse, no Reverend stays Monsters live and they take away A place where your problems You seem to trade An easy life for a guilty grave Sinking battle ships & hide & seek The little things they'll never see The Wait is the hardest thing Will she see the magnolias spring Oh the weight Where's your Mother Your Father dear No one here to bend your ear Where's the talker the one who claimed He'd be with you all his days Sinking battle ships & hide & seek The little things they'd never see The Wait is the hardest thing Will she see the magnolias spring Oh the weight I killed her a thousand times But every way I played it in my mind My heart just couldn't take that sort of crime "Hey there Mama will you braid my hair Toothless smile with dramatic flair Born on a Tuesday brown hair and brown eyes 8 Lbs. of something that was surely mine Smells like springtime and candy rain The perfect burden, I'd never trade The Wait is the hardest thing She loves to see the magnolia's spring Oh the weight The wait, is the hardest thing