Pocket Baggage

Footsteps frosted in the sand Tell the stories we pretend That we can't remember, can't recall They let us when they take their time They don't swallow us whole But bit by bit Day by day Find their way into our center And they branch out until it all just rots away And we can't look the other way My pocket baggage pulls me Down beneath the dirty water Lets rusty iron scrape my heels I bleed out just beneath the surface Shackled inches from the air I see you watching from the pier You smile, then you disappear Big brother, can you hear me Calling out now? Come one down I can't keep screaming out your name I can't keep screaming when the wind runs out And knocks me over These strangers looks the other way Can't say I wouldn't do the same When Mama poured us down the drain She never said to look both ways When dad's boot landed on her face You packed your bag and ran away You left me here and ran Come on down, come on out And watch the whole thing crumble Come on down, come on out You know it's almost over Come on down, come on out You know it's almost over Come on down, come on out I'll let you watch me crumble My pocket baggage pulls me Down beneath the dirty water Lets rusty iron scrape my heels I bleed out just beneath the surface Shackled inches from the air I see you watching from the pier You smile, then you disappear I'll smile