Richard Buckner - 22 lyrics

rate me

The kitchen drawers were open

Hot water in the bath

And the phone call that you promised me

I'd given up on last

I was only 22

All undone and overdue

My friends burned all around me

And the smoke was full of you

But let's stop here for a prayer

For what happened there

And let us have a beer

For anyone who's still here

I didn't leave a letter

I just wrote my baby's name

On the mirror all steamed over

With water, heat and shame

All hopes were long-time missing

They'd had enough of me

I found them hanging through the moon

From the Hooker oak tree

The knife was on the basin

Wrapped in my baby's towel

My friend the water let me in

And I lowered myself down

Cause you can drink and you can shake

And you can dry up bitter tears

But the first to pass right through you

Will age you fifty years

And you could say, 'well I don't know

You got to love just the same'

But I say all I got

Was a phone call that never came

The towel was lying open

And it hurt so bad

There was red smoke in the water

And all the things we'd had

Now honey you don't need this heart

Now that I'm dead and gone

So dig me up and give me back

What I never should've lost

I was falling asleep

You see I felt a little weak

I closed my eyes and thought of you

As the phone let out a ring