No Place is Safe Forever

I paid for coffee, she sat down and turned off her cell phone
No matter how long I've been here this does not feel like home
The trees were taller than the sky and wider than the road
we sang old songs in foreign tongues at the top of our young lungs

My parents took my sister and me when we were just girls
Took us from their own family and flung us to the world
I like to think that I know better but I'm not so sure
I've got a kid of my own and I want the best for her

My parents left before the war
Made it here kept us together
I wonder now what it was for
No place is safe forever
I'm looking at sea

While she told me all of this  I stared at my coffee
I grew up with baseball, and I sang land of the free
My family will be fine, for her I cannot see
She turns her phone back on and says goodbye to me

I'm left with my book bag covered with old punk rock pins
Coffee shop knows my name but not the girl I came with
And if they don't ever see her again