Penny - Parents lyrics

I picked up the dad word from an opaque coffee mug That I found in my mother's decorated drawer *we can roleplay* Xeroxing "I love you"s from our old greeting cards to paste at the end of letters we write to equate the trade and escape the pressed lip blame I keep my fingers toward the ground But I know your eyes won't hug mine the way your arms hug the half-sisters And it seems we should ease off our plastic triggers before The hand sweat makes the hold impossible I picked up the dad word from the finger-paintings we used to do in cla** *each June:* Color-coding every disconnected year according to the smile-forming probablies We can script-read Choosing the proper face plates and putting on our best phone voices during out monthly chats for fear of having the breath pace overheard I flew through a storm once to meet you- Broke through the cloud where our penciled-in plural danced for the second And with a foot's slip, I fell into your eyes: Alwaysonly a part of you while you stood at the end of some numberless ruler, holding your new family's hand, forming the wall that would greet me... I was born 30 years too late for the package deal on parents The clock's walk brought weaker limbs I was born 30 years too late for the package deal on parents But I've created the other half to help me branch from I was born 30 years too late for the package deal on parents I don't mind the other room so much anymore But couldn't resist finally working the empty octave that crawled through And I offered it to you as my gift: The cut-along-the-lips drawer breaker- Voice-painted before another summer folds over Filling your coffee mug to the brim with the ink they'd misfingered with... Of course One of us Had to let it slip