Ben Cooper - Third Family Portrait lyrics

It was the dead of winter The cold was in our bones And our shelves stood barren As we had ever known So our mother stands on the porch one evening With a silent crack in her stony mask She looked up at the sky And said "please" And by the turn of summer We'd packed up all we owned And with my mom and brothers We started for the coast And I would count all the clouds on the way And you and I would name them While the world around us changed And I remember asking if the place we're moving Would have more food and my mother grew as distant as can be And mouthed "please" Eyes, so tired eyes Pay no mind The river of time will drown these days out It was the year just after We stood and watched the sea And my mom was smiling No longer saying please