Expensive Love

There's a drip in the tub that I just can't fix

and I can't find a rug to cover up the skidmarks from where your feet kept losing ground.

You were carving up a tomb from the home I found.

I could afford the surgery,

and I could absorb the cost of drugs,

but I just needed some sort of guarantee

that you'd see me through

Dear Lu

Loving you is so expensive

Loving you is so expensive, darling

Loving you is so expensive, Lumey,

I knew you had to go but didn't know it'd be so costly

You got a little bit sicker when you came on tour

but still you stood right by me 'til your legs were sore

and it was hard to leave you out in the van some nights…

sometimes you gotta do wrong to make the long term right.

But then you got much worse when I took the job -

I had to leave work late and get up at ungodly hours to get out of all the debts I owed.

Maybe you couldn't see the man for the brand new clothes,

but everything else was much improved.

We ate our weight in brand-name foods.

I became the father you never knew

but it was too late

Dear Lu

Loving you is so expensive

Loving you is so expensive, darling

Loving you is so expensive, Lumey,

I knew you had to go but didn't know how much it’d cost me

Loving you…

I knew you had to go,

but didn’t know

I didn’t know

didn’t know

I didn’t know

Sunday, July 19, 2015