Days and Days

Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue

See how we polish and we shine

We rearrange and realign

Everything is balanced and

And... ……

Days and days and days

That's how it happens

Days and days and days

Made of lunches and car rides

And shirts and socks

And grades and piano

And no one clocks the day you disappear

Days and days and days

That's how it happens

Days and days and days

Made of posing and bragging and fits of rage

And boys

My God! Some of them underage

And oh, how did it all happen here?

There was a time

Your father swept me off my feet with words

We read books

Strolled through Munich at night

Drank beer with friends

Discussed the places we would go

And he said I understood

How the world made him ache

But no

But no

That's how it happens

Days made of bargains I made

Because I thought as a wife

I was meant to

And now my life is shattered and laid bare

Days and days and days and days

And days and days and days!

Welcome to our house on Maple Avenue

See how we polish and we shine

We rearrange and realign

Everything is balanced and serene

Like chaos never happens

If it's never seen

Don't you come back here

I didn't raise you to give away your days like me