Wounded Healer (Deer Tick sample)

His footprints are fading away from the beach

We're not a family to pray or to preach

But daddy's best friend took a handful of pills

And now he's at a podium making a speech

Yesterday night after dark

He carefully wrote his remarks

But everyone said what he put on his page

So he threw it way and went straight from the heart

I thought this was a party

But all my friends are leaving

And I still want to play

You wrecked me when you stepped out

Cause you're the wounded healer

And you're supposed to stay

A year's a bottle in a bucket of trash

It'll tip over the more that it stacks

Didn't notice it till now but dad's been

Moving slower every time we go play catch

I'm scared of the day when he'll carry a cane

I carry his dream

I carry his name

And when papa is gone he will never be gone

Because the sound of our sneeze is the same

God bless I

Hear your voice

In mine

I want to stop time

Like a carnival ride

Because

I don't know what I'm saying but I mean it (repeat)

I thought this was a party

I thought this was a party

But all my friends are leaving

And I still want to play

You wrecked me when you stepped out

Cause you're the wounded healer

And you're supposed to stay