Amanda Palmer - The Thing About Things lyrics

I’ve loaned a lot of things to a lot of friends Like records and dresses and books And a lot of the time I never see them again And in a weird way I think that that works Because the thing about things is they start turn evil When you start to forget what they’re for And so if you’re not sure what you did with my sweater I’ll just have to love you a little bit more I had a ring it belonged to my grandfather He was a mason and gay And he was distant and bitter for all of my childhood We never had much to say He wasn’t the type to give tokens of affection So I stole ring when he died And then twenty years on when I lost it at a bar I thought that’s fine I don't want him in my life Because the thing about things is that they can start meaning things Nobody actually said And if he couldn’t make something mean something for me I had to make up what it meant I can carry everything I need in one collapsing suitcase I can carry everyone I love in one phone application Built to maximize the facetime of the friends I’m bent on making Actually I want to be alone To mourn the loss Of what it cost I think it’s a poem and I think it keeps going And I’ve borrowed and loaned lots of things And 3 nights ago in the bar where I lost it the bartender gave me the ring I lie in bed With my phone in my hand Thinking what can I fix with which app And I call my grandfather And he doesn’t answer And I have to make peace with that fact Because the thing about things Is that they can start meaning things nobody actually said And if you’re not allowed to love people alive Then you learn how to love people dead The thing about things is that they can start meaning things nobody actually said And if you’re not allowed To love people alive Then you learn how to love people dead