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...and I miss home, and I miss the closets, the windows, the hallwaysAnd when we are gone, who will keep up the garden? Like a mother calling her boy, I am, I am so unsafeBut she can't do it alone but there's nothing stronger than her prayers.Nothing stronger than the smell of reds. My fathers redsUnder bridges waiting to look forward, waiting for rushes endsLiving in the moment is the homeless mantra, they know the busiest streetsAll we have, all we have, all we have is letting sleeping dogs layAll we have, all we have, all we have is letting sleeping dogs layYour face lit up and for once, i enjoyed where i wasThe truth is jade plants die, the truth is muscles atrophySoftening your skin and hardening mine"I don't know where to beginI've thought about this day so much and thought of so many things I've wanted to saybut now, now I can only look at you like the pictures I spend hours staring at I don't think I've ever smiled so wide as when you were holding me upI was given a picture the other day of a past birthdayWe were together on our back deckI remember.You were covered in powdered sugar from the donuts you were eatingI've always loved watching you smileSongtexteDo you remember the mornings when we woke up early to ride bicycles to on the board walk or the night before my first homecoming when you taught me how to dance?Yes I remember. I hope she appreciated all my hard workI wish I had a different story to tellI seem I have drifted fairly far away from what you taught me You were always the (indecipherable)I'll admit there hasn't been much to smile about since, since you leftI didn't leave, I fought for five years to stay at your sideWhat do you remember about that night?I remember a family that loved their wife and mother very much.How can you say that? We were liarsWe clung to those songs like we so desperately wanted to Cling to you.Then I don't think you heard the same song I didYou had to know I was lyingYou had to know how much I hated myself for smiling like a foolFor spending our last few minutes together deceiving youMatthew, your smile on the face of your (grey) spirit was the greatest gift a mother has ever received from her childI miss youI know."Everyone cares, every eye carelessly tiptoes around you, watching you, They'll wear black ties, and as they applaud, i'll count claps Aus Songtexte Mania