23 Years

Was it the aching of your wrists
 Or just because of your weathered eyes
 Was it the shaking your clenching fists
 Or the hollow pass of time
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 Was it the aging of her hips
 Or the way that my mother always cried
 Was it the taste of another's lips
 For which you put down your fight
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 Had you forgotten her long white dress
 How pretty she looked coming down the isle
 You asked her to love you and she said yes
 And she loved you like a child
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 Had you forgotten those long hard days
 Coming home to your lover every night
 She'd wait for you to step off of that train
 She's been waiting all her life
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 Love is getting your hands dirty
 Love is bleeding all over each other
 Love is sharing the same burden
 Love's not living, it's dying, it's dying together
 It's dying together
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 I feel the weight of her broken prayer
 
 23 years pleading for your life
 23 years begging you to care
 For your tired and lonely life