Ten Year Teardrop

Talking the talk with a big white man
 Talking sharp, talking cool
 Talking so smooth and so fast
 A business trip faster than the speed of feelings
 On a big man's trip, I get the memo last
 Talking the talk, I get the memo last
 Memento mori, my girl long past
 A mop of hair appears in my suitcase
 My long gone sweetheart peeks out her cute face
 Playful and young as she was in life
 Playful and young as she was in '99
 Talking the talk, I get the memo last
 Memento mori, my girl long past
 I thought I buried you
 How did I carry you all these years?
 I won't break down, won't let the big men see my tears
 I buried you deep, deep down in the dirt of years
 I won't break down
 Fellas, where were we?
 Talking the talk so I don't break down
 Ten years for a tear to hit the ground
 Ten years for a tear to hit the ground
 I'm breaking down, I can't talk right
 How can you smile?
 How can you hide from me like this?
 Gutted to the core, I'm breaking down
 I'm breaking down
 I buried you, I buried you
 Ten years deep in dirt
 We buried you
 Gutted to the core, I'm breaking down
 I'm breaking down
 Gutted to the core, I'm breaking down
 I'm breaking down
 I can't talk right
 I buried you, I buried you
 How can you smile?
 How can you hide from me all these years?
 Gutted to the core, I'm breaking down
 I'm breaking down
 How I missed you
 I love you, I love you
 How I missed you
 We buried you, we buried you
 I love you, I love you, I love you
 Ten years deep in dirt
 We buried you, we buried you
 Ten years deep
 I love you, I love you, I love you
 My cries turn to those of 40 children
 An unruly class that is my charge
 They cry for a man
 Not an aged crumbling boy
 I hold my tongue and take my wooden club
 On each little shoulder, a firm and silent prod
 They come to order, one by one
 The Mothers silently nod
 Singing the song with the old black ladies
 I've done my job, the elders nod
 Beginning the ride with the wise black ladies
 Where were we? All praise be God...