Take a Down - Fireside

In a car, not her own

Owned by someone, called her man for all time

On her way to a house

To a couple, she call sir and dear mom

She’s afraid, it’s her plan

To reveal the disappointing things she’s done

Nicotine and all the gin

Why can’t thirty years of lying be undone

On a chair, face to face

The achievement of her lifetime is so beautiful

It’s okay, let it out

And I knew, she said, she knew that we would help her

No one’s mad, only sad

And a heavy weight inside her is gone forever

What is wrong?

You’re at home

And she went away to where she always wanted

Something in her died so long ago

I thought she’d never come to know