Children's Work - Dessa.mp3

[00:12.51]My father was a paper plane
[00:14.91]My mother was a windswept tree
[00:17.76]My little brother's nearly twice my age
[00:19.92]He taught me how to meditate, I taught him how to read
[00:22.74]I grew up with a book in my bed
[00:24.63]I got these dark circles before I turned ten
[00:27.42]Heard my mother with her friends worry it was something she did
[00:30.48]To get such a serious kid
[00:32.49]But I've learned how to paint my face
[00:34.47]How to earn my keep, how to clean my kill
[00:37.17]Some nights I still can't sleep
[00:39.42]The past rolls back, I can see us still
[00:42.27]You've learned how to hold your own
[00:44.22]How to stack your stones
[00:45.42]But the history's thick
[00:47.43]Children aren't as simple as we'd like to think
[00:51.51]Before you came along I was a lone cub
[00:54.27]Fell in love with language, tried to tell the grown-ups
[00:56.85]About the storm clouds, the weather in my head
[00:59.34]Hadn't heard the word for melancholy yet
[01:01.41]Then you came in five years behind
[01:03.81]We thought you couldn't talked, turned out you were just shy
[01:06.30]Mom said it was serious, Dad said you'd be fine
[01:08.76]I thought you were the prophet of 1989
[01:11.22]You were so tender we thought something was wrong with you
[01:14.01]So patient we thought that you were deaf
[01:15.96]You were so solemn, so tiny but so ancient
[01:18.48]Mom took you to see doctors, you scared her half to death
[01:21.09]And I made you a library
[01:23.28]Of tiny books with spines two inches high
[01:26.34]You didn't say too much, but your smile
[01:28.89]Taught me how to quiet down my mind
[01:31.05]But I've learned how to paint my face
[01:32.97]How to earn my keep, how to clean my kill
[01:35.94]Some nights I still can't sleep
[01:37.92]The past rolls back, I can see us still
[01:40.80]You've learned how to hold your own
[01:42.72]How to stack your stones
[01:43.92]But the history's thick
[01:46.02]Children aren't as simple as we'd like to think
[02:10.02]You slept in my bed
[02:12.51]And if I kept quiet
[02:15.30]I could hear all the voices in your head
[02:19.14]When the wagon tipped, I prayed over your body
[02:22.08]I asked God to take the damage out on me
[02:24.54]Ten years later, he finally gets the memo
[02:26.76]Sent it to accounting and knocked out my front teeth
[02:29.70]But you came to and took my hand
[02:32.25]And held my eyes, and...
[02:34.80]Me and you had a long walk home
[02:37.08]So we decided not to cry
[02:39.57]Now we've got a grown-up love
[02:41.73]And I know that's how it's supposed to be
[02:44.10]Same old story, Mom gets Easters
[02:47.19]Lets Dad have Christmas Eve
[02:49.08]But I won't pretend I don't remember
[02:51.87]How unusual we were
[02:54.18]The little mystic and his handler
[02:56.82]All some children do is work
[02:58.95]But I've learned how to paint my face
[03:00.78]How to earn my keep, how to clean my kill
[03:03.81]Some nights I still can't sleep
[03:05.67]The past rolls back, I can see us still