When exactly did the future cease being a companion that you needed?

Did the hours lose their taste with the sores they passed over the dinner table?

Learning the alphabet of a language we couldn't yet speak

Up in the attic, on an unfamiliar street

Trying to build on the hot ashes of what they burned down for years

My truth is small and dripping from the fire water still

Was it disregard or bravery? I guess that couldn't say

Snow-covered bed-sheets, face and pillow and a little more time to stay

And I'll be staring at the door hoping that you caught your train

Give me some more time. I'll visit on your birthday

Or I promise that at least I'll try

Trying to build on the hot ashes of what they burned down for years

My truth is small and dripping from the fire water still

Was it disregard or bravery? I guess that couldn't say

Snow-covered bed-sheets, face and pillow and a little more time to stay

And I'll be staring at the door hoping that you caught your train

Give me some more time. I'll visit on your birthday

Or I promise that at least I'll try

Was it failure of friends or just ill-defined destiny

The absence of parental fucking advisory?

Who's at fault, the state or God?

I wear these questions like a second skin

It was kids helping kids instead of mothers and fathers

Eho buried you after they never bothered

They should have been your shore

Not the water in your sinking car

Words are like the weather. Some days they burn like the sun

Some nights they fall like heavy rain. Make 'em come undone

When exactly did the future cease being a companion that you needed?

Was it disregard or bravery? I guess that couldn't say

Snow-covered bed-sheets, face and pillow and a little more time to stay

And I'll be staring at the door hoping that you caught your train

Give me some more time. I'll visit on your birthday

Or I promise that at least I'll try