所属专辑:What It Takes to Move Forward
时长: 08:09
It Happened Because You Left - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)[00:00:00]
In fall[00:03:04]
The year you grew to be six feet[00:03:06]
I tempered my fear into haste[00:03:15]
A worry that dogged our mother[00:03:26]
She the baby of three asked how[00:03:46]
So many things could take flight at once[00:04:00]
There are no easy answers[00:04:12]
And even thirteen I[00:04:20]
Could not think of a sure reply[00:04:26]
At the church where I was baptized[00:04:37]
Our father refused to park near the crowd[00:04:48]
At that time[00:04:56]
I still believed in god or faeries[00:05:00]
Or that the air could catch on fire[00:05:11]
When you and your friends[00:05:39]
Took off on separate routes[00:05:43]
I wanted to follow you[00:05:47]
But our mother said I was not allowed to[00:05:55]
You had not yet learned how to fill[00:06:04]
Such a broad frame[00:06:09]
That winter you said[00:06:12]
You hated your body[00:06:17]
But when spring came[00:06:21]
You'd learned how to speak[00:06:23]
And you moved out west[00:06:29]
To watch the ocean eat the coast away[00:06:35]
I can still remember that day you left[00:06:47]
Thoughts spilling out from my chest[00:07:02]
Like[00:07:07]
Who will you be when you come back[00:07:10]
Or even[00:07:18]
Will you come back[00:07:21]