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lyrics

TAKING YOUR FATHER TO THE DOCTOR
Just another rainy day
Swear I never seen so many
Shades of grey
Make you wanna just fade away
It’s a numbness
Cuts like razor blades and
I’m half-awake in this
Sleepy little waiting room
Half-awake in this
Sleepy part of town
Left pops with the doctors
Troop to the boardwalk
Ignore the rain
Same way we ignore thoughts
Just take em back
Like they were store-bought
But in the back
It’s the steady hush
Like the way the shore talks
But up close
You can grasp the meaning
Crashing, screaming
I bought a sleep mask
Lately I’ve been dreaming
And in the parking lot
I contemplated leaving
Sorry pops
I’m just used to
Making stuff rhyme…
There may not be enough time
Probably never know
What you been through
And I am scared to death
That you are who I’m turning into

CHORUS
I’ll tell you what though
I’ll tell you what though
I’ll tell you what
I will pick you up so
You don’t have to take the subway
And be another ghost in the crowd
On a Monday
I’ll tell you what though
I’ll tell you what
I’m not sure
That I can stitch you up

Now – you could make the case
That heartbreak is permanent
The sheer hurt of it
Leave a man invertebrate
He builds a levee wall
To keep the blood from surgin
And the beat once proud
Quiets down to a murmurin
Here’s a different version -
Tell me if you heard of it
There is a purpose
Even if there’s no reversin it
Love could turn an ordinary
Person to a surgeon
And the heart now healed
Beats louder than at first it did
But I probably
Wasn’t thinking this
In the waiting room chair
That I am slinking in
Sleepy-eyed receptionist, Erica
Ask could she turn on the TV
Good morning, America
And in the cold, blue glow
From the screen
I disappear,
From my nose to my feet
Just a cloudy mind floating
Inundated, outside it is soaking
Seems strange
So close to the ocean
They call my name
Once again we are closed in
We barely speak,
Sittin side by side
Till the doctor walks by
Says you’re gonna be fine
And I’m shocked
At what I don’t feel
A fish in a bowl full of oatmeal

CHORUS
(with variation on last line)
I really don’t think
That I can stitch you up

Now…
I guess that we should head home
I’ll drop you off at your place
Then I should get going
And taped to your front door
Is a photograph of the sunset
On the Verrazano Bridge
It lights the whole island
With color so soft,
You kinda float off
With a slow loft
But it’s unbalanced
Like you don’t see it fair
That bridge is beautiful
But you don’t even see it there
Just the land in the distance…
A second chance
Where the sand
Doesn’t sink so quick

CHORUS
(with variation on last line)
We are ordinary people
Who can stitch you up

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from What's It Gonna Be?, released November 22, 2010

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