safe

Hey

Did you get enough to eat?

Hey

Did you get a treat?

Hey 

Did you have a pretty normal day?

Well that's ok

Hey

Did your city just get bombed?

Hey

Did you pay for someone's wrongs?

Hey

Are you safe at home tonight?

Well that's alright

When you lay your head down safe

Do you remember to take time to pray

For everyone that's not ok

For all those who can't go home?

When you snuggle in your bed

Do you remember those who've fled 

From what they've always known?

That can never go home?

Did they tell you it's ok

Too do things their way

Did they tell you that you're safe

As long as you play the game

Jesus christ 

Are you coming or what

Is this your fight

Or is it all or fault

Jesus christ

When will you make your debut

We've prayed,  we've titled

Are you gonna come through

Is it ok if she just cries 

She doesn't understand all the whys 

She's just hanging on to her life

With no answers or reason

I guess as long as your wifi works

Your work and hobbies will come first

It's not like they're killing neighbor kids

Keep on scrolling shorty video

What can I do,  little one

What can I do,  orphaned son 

What can I do to give you the peace that you should have

What can I do,  my sister

What can I do,  old mister

What can I do to return the life that you lived 

are you kidding me

Baby, there's someone knocking

At the door

Could you come and answer it

Once more 

The news isn't good,  he tells us

48 hours till they just

Come and take over our home

There's no one left on the phone

We thought the handsome boy in the courtroom

Was actually doing his best to tell us the truth

Looks like he was doing the work of the devil

And we were left to face the gavel

Where can we go

What do we do

This can't be happening

This can't be true

Are you kidding me

Is this a bad dream

Are you kidding me

This is to much for me

dougie hates this one

Is it cool if I sit here

And listen to you play your songs?

Is it cool if I sit in

Is it cool if I jam along

Is it cool if I don't hold

Back anything at all

Is it cool if I want to be

A part of it all

Is it cool if we work on

Something that we both create

Is it cool if we can

Comfortably collaborate

Is it cool that you're not me

And I'm not you

It'd be so cool if we just played

Without thinking everything through

I'm not strong enough to fight

I'm not trying to be right

Will you ever see my time

As the biggest gift of mine

What's so wrong with that

What's your problem now

Is my work just trash 

Did you take some vow

Is there something that I've done

Will I ever have some fun

I guess it's always been your show

I guess it's time for me to go

Is it cool if I 

try a different line

Is it cool if I

Just chill and harmonize

Is it cool if I

Work these keys of mine

Is it cool if I

Work the bass line

Is it cool if we work

On something that is ours

Is it cool if we

Work together on these bars

Is it cool to be

Together on the mic

Is it cool if we

Share the spotlight

What's so wrong with that

What's your problem now

Is my work just trash

Did you take some vow

I dint want to fight

It's just another song

Can't we both be right

Can't we both be wrong

Phone calls to my sister

Jesus.

I wish I could talk to you.  Almost 18 years later.  I still wish I could call you everyday. 

Our family is not ok.  Your kid is running rampant.  Emily has everyone backed into a corner.

There was never a time since you left that we didn't need you.

 I'm not cut out to be the oldest.  I can't fill your shoes.

Mom and dad are getting old, they're both sick.  Adam is doing the best he can, after a shit load of rough times.  I'm pretty sure I'm always gonna be a fuck up.

Oh please come back.  I can't tell you how horribly I wish you could just come back.  I miss you, more than you could ever imagine. 

I don't think we are doing ok without you.  We've tried for almost 18 years.   We're not ok.

Please just take us to a different time line where you are still here.  Please come back.  

I'm not what they need.

I'm never going to be you.

please forgive me

I know who I was,  or at least what I tried to be. 

My body couldn't keep the promises my ego issued.

It's time to pay the piper. 

I deserve the worst. 

Please don't hurt me. 

get off my lawn

Things are changing so quickly. 

Who ever thought someone would think steely dan was a person that used they pronouns?

Fuck

Who ever thought they needed seek out that level of validation for their dating preferences?

I just don't care.   It doesn't matter. 

If people want to stand up and scream and fight over whatever,  that's their thing. 

Israel bombed a children's hospital.   We still have camps in the US full of migrant children that are illegally detained. 

People are losing their homes, came afford to feed themselves. 

Steely Dan's pronouns seem like a great distraction. 

Fuck it. 

surprise

Everyone goes through life alone. 

Though we may desperately seek and believe we have found sometime who shares our experiences as we do...

That's not possible. 

I've spent so many years.   I believed in a shared perception and experience of life with a partner. 

I

Was

Wrong

I was wrong.