A Song To Comfort The Sick

[Verse 1]
                                 
I‘m weighing down the covers of my bed.
                                                   
I feel so heavy from the silence of what wasn t said.
                                                         
Though it s dark in here I see fluorescent lights above your head,
                                               
making me green cause they re looking over you instead.

[Verse 2]
                              
Oh how I wish I was a helpful one.
                                                                    
But I can t be the one who s hovering  round always asking you what s wrong.
                                            
This distance grew up carelessly but how easily it keeps me
                                      
from needing to be there when you need me there.
                                               
I hope when you need me there I ll show up again

[Interlude]
      

[Verse 3]
                           
And keep you warm and make the bed
                                            
and hold a washcloth to your perspirating forehead.
                                                                
But you think a lover, not a friend, will drive those secret demons in
                                        
though the silence is the place that they begin.

[Verse 4]
                                          
Oh yes the silence is the place that they begin.
                                          
I spent a lot of time just figuring that out, friend.
                                                            
So if there s something wrong inside me I hope some other soul will find me
                               
here in this aging set of skin,
                                         
cause these are the bodies we re stuck in.
                                
And if I had it all to do again
                                              
I d have driven over before they checked you in

[Outro]
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