Chessa Rich - Mary

Blue eyes remember one spring when you woke one night at 3am
Choking on air so you opened all the doors and let the cold air in

You saved your babies, all ten
In a stirring rush of intuition
Was it always easy listening to your insides?
I wonder all the time

I've been wondering more than usual
Watching the moments of my lifetime fly
Around the collards and patterned sheets on a clothesline
When I was a baby you washed me with your bare hands in the sink
Mary

So I've been writing more things
Just capturing little ideas
When some synapses fire for the first time I liken them to yours

I've been writing more than usual
Watching the moments of my lifetime fly
Around the collards and patterned sheets on a clothesline
I was making my new life and you were making your way to the other side
Mary

Lying on the couch at night I wonder
Were you ever lost and did you ever feel like you were failing?
Where did your thoughts go when you would find them all alone
All alone with your oil paintings?
You saw color and you saw light
Everything you made's just right

I've been recalling more things
My lifetime is in the palm of my hand
Like a stone shaped by persistent waves of a changing shoreline

I remember more than usual
Watching the moments of my lifetime fly
Around the collards and patterned sheets on a clothesline

You're a white cloud now
Shaped like a feather
And all the white sand under the water

Written by:
CLAWSON, NICHOLSON, RICH

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