Gemstones - Kitchen Table lyrics

[Intro] I got on my safety pin! There's an elephant in the room May God get the glory [Verse 1] This is where my family communes Where I've seen so much have happened here since I came out the womb From happy years to crying tears To arguments with shining June I'm talking 'bout the very place where I first learned to hold my spoon Hoped my tunes And hoped someday that my career would blow up soon The place we ate my birthday cake on every 20th of June We blew up balloons, ate hot dogs and chips And danced to 90s tunes As the music from the ca**ette play a jam throughout the room Before I bloomed and learned that life was about more than I a**umed I'm surprised to think of how much time of mine it has consumed I'd be lying if I sit here today and say I'm not immune Man some nights we sit here so long that sunlight replace the moon It's a place where I sit down sometimes at night and write my songs A place the dog would sneak beneath and poop And boy that smell was strong Where I read songs when I felt I was just too weak to carry on A place I always laid my head to pray when things was going wrong It's made our home We ate on it with every plate we ever owned The place where Emmett used to always smoke his weed up and get stoned The same place that I used to when I used to smoke and drink Patron Not weed, but Newport Longs And kick it with my family all night long The place I gambled up my money until all my bread was gone Where I read my poems And learned 'bout all that 2+2 stuff that I homed A place where grandma always made you hush if food was on your tongue A place that I would go sit at late night and sweet talk on the phone Where the roaches crawled at night In hopes to find at least a chicken bone A place my sister used to braid my hair with grease and keep it combed But now I'm grown And left with nothing but sweet memories in my dome About this home and where I sat, and how our seats were made of foam It wasn't stable but grateful cause we able Many years at a kitchen table