Richard Buckner - 22 lyrics

The kitchen drawers were open Jot water int he bath And the phone call that you'd promised me I'd given up on at last I was only 22 All undone and overdue My friends burned all around me And the smoke was full of you But let's stop here for a prayer For what happened there And let us have a beer For anyone who's still here I didn't leave a letter I just wrote my baby's name On the mirror all steamed over With water, hear, and shame All hopes were long-time missing They'd had enough of me I found them hanging through the moon From the Hooker oak tree The knife was on the basin Wrapped in my baby's towel My friend the water let me in And I lowered myself down Cause you can drink and you can shake And you can dry your bitter tears But the first to pa** right through you Will age you fifty years And you could say "well I don't know You got to love just the same" But I say all i got Was a phone call that never came The towel was lying open And it didn't hurt so bad There was red smoke in the water And all the things we'd had Now honey you don't need this heart Now that I'm dead and gone So dig me up and give me back What I never should've lost I was falling asleep You see I felt a little weak I closed my eyes and thought of you As the phone let out a ring