Make Do And Mend

"When they ask me whether you mean more to me 
than moving pictures on a T.V. screen 
am I supposed to say 
that I was young when you left and you don’t keep in touch these days?


I wonder if you know your family misses you so
The hardest lessons learned
No matter where you go, no matter where you go 
Are the ones you learn alone


And last time I saw you, 
there was a stranger in the skin of someone I once knew, 

You are the one who got away, 
and now we’re forced to stand by helpless 
and watch you sinking like your coast in the pacific waves.

And I would call even though you won’t pick up 
to hear your voice like a ghost on the machine, 
“This is the home of someone you do not know, 
a past life you never wanted to leave.”




You held me in your arms and said that the pain was something I’d forget. 
Now that you’re running away from the bed you made yourself I wonder 
if there is something I could say to take your pain away."