lirik lagu ethel meserve - ina
[spoken word:]
i remember this of my mother and father
separate times and places with each
when i was a child, i lived with my mother
when she could drive me to altoona, an hour away
i would visit my father
but once he came to get me, he broke down the door
stole me from the babysitter’s arms
spared my sister, left her safe in our house
he took me away without my mother knowing
cut off my hair, brought me back to her
curly locks into a mohawk
i didn’t know that bad things happenеd to me
but bad things happened that i can rеmember now
the things he did to me to hurt my mother
my father calls me, drunk, on the phone
tells me about the gift he has for me
in his closest, a box of baseball cards
he has bought and saved several months
i try to tell him i don’t collect anymore
that i stopped years ago
he doesn’t listen
he is so far behind, i don’t think he will ever catch up with me
i can’t remember the last gift he bought for me
but i accept this one
someday, he says, he will bring them
and if one day he does, they will not be for me
i will put them in a closet, away from my collection
save them for my son
until they are worth something more than money
my mother knew it slightly
saying she remembered seeing it while they were married
but didn’t know where my father got it
my sister had gone through his things
finding little of any value to us
giving me the pocket watch
knowing i had nothing that belonged to my father
after his funeral, my sister handed me the watch
telling me it didn’t work
everyone said that i could get it fixed, make it work again
i held the watch in my hands, wound the top
put it close to my ear and listened to life coming back again
someone said my father was lucky to live to the age of 47
after all those years of drinking and smoking
my father, who called his son belated
with a voice of liquor, not love
not to say happy birthday or apologize
but to give excuses for not calling before
who, at christmas, put the gifts he bought
never sent, into the corner of his bedroom
left them there to remind him of his loss
who spent his days, not at a job working
but in the neighborhood bar, feeling sorry for himself
for what he had become
someone said this man was lucky to live
but i would have to say, after all those years of k!lling himself
he was lucky to die
if i had seen you take your last step
seen death trip you on the sidewalk
in front of the neighborhood bar
i would have helped you up
brushed the dirt off of all those years
i would have taken you back inside, bought you a drink
sat with you until the last sip was gone
i would have made sure i was with you
just to be with you
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