22 Lyrics - Bloomed - Richard Buckner

The kitchen drawers were open 

Hot water in the bath 

And the phone call that you promised me 

I'd given up on last 

I was only 22 

All undone and overdue 

My friends burned all around me 

And the smoke was full of you 

But let's stop here for a prayer 

For what happened there 

And let us have a beer 

For anyone who's still here 

I didn't leave a letter 

I just wrote my baby's name 

On the mirror all steamed over 

With water, heat and shame 

All hopes were long-time missing 

They'd had enough of me 

I found them hanging through the moon 

From the Hooker oak tree 

The knife was on the basin 

Wrapped in my baby's towel 

My friend the water let me in 

And I lowered myself down 

'Cause you can drink and you can shake 

And you can dry up bitter tears 

But the first to pass right through you 

Will age you fifty years 

And you could say, 'well I don't know 

You got to love just the same' 

But I say all I got 

Was a phone call that never came 

The towel was lying open 

And it hurt so bad 

There was red smoke in the water 

And all the things we'd had 

Now honey you don't need this heart 

Now that I'm dead and gone 

So dig me up and give me back 

What I never should've lost 

I was falling asleep 

You see I felt a little weak 

I closed my eyes and thought of you 

As the phone let out a ring