Old Jaw
You're about what you're about,
Let me tell you what I found,
You're about what you're about,
You can tell me how it sounds,
You're about what you're about
Let me tell you I have my doubts,
Every word in your mouth
Always lifted these lashes,
Every word in your mouth
Got the lashes out,
Every word in your mouth,
Those stories so warming, so profound,
I guess I marked my life with your lines
More than I ever did mine
My eyes couldn't hide from the old you and I,
My face rusted like those wind chimes in rust light,
Well I've never easily risen,
I've never had those old jaw jokes,
I've never had that old ed size,
I've never had robert's prison guard skin
I've learned it's the fingers and the placement
Something about that always stuck
And I'm just stubborn enough
But those years were the weight giving way
So you'd startle awake,
Just a time, just a place,
Just a name remembered with the photo and the frame
You're about what you're about and so on