The Greeting - Ceshia Anaquod

Eight years old to the day You blew your candles off the cake Wishing too hard for them to stay You burnt the house down She held the match, he held her face You learned to hate your birthday Calling her bitch, despite your wish They had to separate And the room sings And it sounds like leaving home And the room sings "We know something you don't" Now he's quite the stand-up guy He's stood you up 'least twelve times And when he finally does arrive He brings his new wife The family shrink from second floor The one he claimed he couldn't afford Your mother cries, clings to the floor You knock his lights out And the room sings And it sounds like leaving home And the room sings "We know something you don't" And the room sings And it sounds like leaving home The room sings "We know something you don't" The room sings And it sounds like there's no love

I Can count every freckle Can count every line You've rolled you're eyes Over at me for In a parking lot light With a stripped smile You're making that look Like it's funny that you're causing me trouble In a back car seat Reminding me That even in a wreck I've got someone for holding I'm losing sleep Well, how could I ever Close my eyes when you're brown And good days green right next to me? I'm losing my mind Swore it wouldn't happen this time But if love makes you stupid You're making me the biggest fool you'll ever find So make me yours From this day forward And I'll grow to be somebody you deserve With promises for all their worth I'll remember every word And every silly little chord The way you bite your lip Pretending you're innocent And all of it's been In a blanket fort of secrets Will you make me a child? And love with the world through your lens And all of it's spent In the sheets you kick to the end of the bed I'll make every morning With your side a bit of a mess Cause that's how you like it And I really like you Oh, I love you to death

Uptight, too hung up, too much to be done You stand there shivering under the sun Do you have what it takes? One shot and you're drawing blanks Now everyone's passing to leave you behind You swear you've pissed away your whole life only to miss it all Oh, an hourglass'll lay you on your ass if you just watch it fall Turn your head, kid, right back around it You're pulling away from all that you wanted The coming of age you're dreading to happen You put your foot down, you keep on running Deep in the pit of my stomach I rummage Through thoughts of amounting to all that I needed To being the downfall, doubts that determine you Don't give them hold of you, be who you're running to Turn your head, kid, right back around it You're pulling away from all that you wanted The coming of age you're dreading to happen You put your foot down, you keep on running So you keep on running And don't get it twisted You keep on running for me Turn your head Right back around it The coming of age you're dreading to happen You put your foot down, you keep on running You keep on running Don't stop your running You know they're coming You know they're coming for you

I see you running out from the garden Calling the kids, the floor is rotten Brittle-boned homes for adolescents I guess we do turn into our parents And all of the discord I thought I ran for Don't wanna feel more, don't wanna feel And it just gets harder, swear I feel further Just wanna feel you, just wanna If you're gone, who gets the toothbrush ready? If you're gone, I'll watch too much TV If you're gone, how do I go on living? If you're gone, how do I go on? Call it a cop out like hating a hometown Knock on your window with leash in my mouth I've been agent, I wanna be anchored You look right through me like some sort of stranger And all of the distance I thought I missed it Don't wanna feel it, don't wanna feel And it just gets harder, swear I feel smaller Just wanna feel you, just wanna If you're gone, who gets the toothbrush ready? If you're gone, I'll watch too much TV If you're gone, how do I go on living? If you're gone, how do I go on? I won't say your name again I'll hate words that resemble it I won't say your name again I'll hate words that resemble it I won't say your name again I won't say your name