Crumbling Walls

Fights – tell me why, why the lipstick in your truck

Work baby – its only work, trust me you need to.

Dinners sat and cold, counters covered in cellophane

Im sorry honey, I had to stay after work and help, trust me.

Its to build a future for our – another is on the way

The phone I hid just like the phone you hid in the bathroom.

Insecticide on these walls, they heard it all

The fights – the lights, they went out in a flash

The baby came home, a second one to make three

Everything I did was for us, our family

I worked hard to give you what you wanted – don’t you see

Don’t you see I did all this for you – the pushing and nagging

I am the one who has sacrificed to let you have what you wanted

These walls, they saw it all – the tears, the sobbing

Lonely walls bled green to brighten lives buried under centuries

The tears were missed – covered in photographs of others

Mold covered tiles just fell into the water

Children played in the dark murk left behind

The doors decayed, the roof fallen in and the yard dirty

Warmth on bedsheets warned that another heard heard heard

The crack in the foundation was covered and hidden

But the walls saw it all – they knew they were beyond repair

The walls – they didn’t see the games the losses the cost

The cost of the games that kept me in these walls – they saw it all

The walls are coming down and the truth is coming - fallen on

Bluebirds lost and weeds burned to the ground

Burdens ripped apart with the brick walls and dead wires

Tossed aside and left to rust – the remains of ancestors in the grass

These walls saw it all – the love the loss the hate the tears the years

These walls say a fond farewell to the only one who truly cared

The walls will fall, I won’t be here to hear them cry as they come down

They know I feel like I was never really home and we're okay now