Reunion - David Poe

Won’t you come down?

She said

Come down

To my family reunion

Come down

You can meet my dad

You can see my home

They are the reason

My love gets strong

The bar I haunted

Before there was you

Won’t you come down?

She said

Come down

To my holiday at home

This is the room

The chair he sat in

Now it’s powder-burn blue

This is where it happened

And that’s my sister

And her husband the bastard

She smiles at his mustache

It’s his latest disaster

My sister used to get high

She used to make a sound

Now she’s sweet and low

When he’s around

But she’s happy for me

Because I found you

You see how the time is frozen pools

Is this how we’re gonna get if we get old?

I don’t know

Won’t you come home?

Come home

To my family reunion

Come home

It’s just how we left it

Everything’s in place

When you went away

A little shrine was made

And did you see my mother?

Did you see her face?

There are some things

Time won’t erase

Ask her if there’s something in the kitchen that needs tending to

But she’ll say no

Unless she likes you

But you know there’s nothing any one of us can do

Yeah, yeah, yeah