With A Sort of Grace I Walked To The Bathroom To Cry

My friend Theresa, she's been in a lot of pain
 Was there recently, had took up all the space in my brain
 She lives there, by a cornfield
 So was it the spray or was it the medication she took to get herself through her day
 We got into her car and we drove around
 The Ohio roads that were flooded with rain on the ground
 We got into a car and we drove around
 "Teaser and the Firecat" and "Tea For the Tillerman" were in the background
 When I was a kid, I kept toads and garter snakes
 In the window well and they drowned when it rained
 Before the snow came down in the winter
 I dug a hole for my box turtle
 He'd hibernate until Spring I'd come and get him
 And I took her picture near a red fire hydrant near an old barn
 And then we ate at Eadie's Fish House in North Canton
 And that night we watched Jimmy Buffet on Jimmy Fallon
 And I went to sleep on her couch while she walked off to her bedroom
 And I kissed her goodnight
 And I looked at her tired eyes
 With a sort of grace I walked to the toilet to cry
 Because I remember when we were just young
 Just young, young little kids
 Before the heaviness of life took over every fucking thing
 Because I remember when we were just young
 Young, young little kids
 Playing the Ouija board on a yellow card table in her mother's basement
 And when I'm walking down the Ohio roads
 I remember all the turtles and snakes and the frogs and the toads
 And all the ponds and lakes, the records and 8-track tapes
 I loved Emerson Lake and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery but Eric Clapton's Slowhand gave me a fucking headache
 And as I walk around the block that you live on
 I see poetry in every inch of it
 I see lightning bugs flicker at dusk
 In the overgrown weeds at house being foreclosed on
 And I walk over to the church at the intersection
 Fluorescent blue painted handicapped parking spaces
 And at the side of the road I see a dead groundhog laying on his back
 And I walk over to him and there's another groundhog nearby in the weeds
 Breathing fast like he's having a panic attack
 My friend Theresa she's been in so much pain
 When I visit her, I do my best not to bitch or complain
 So I goof around and I like to tell her dumb jokes
 But underneath it all I've got a gnawing fear deep in my bones
 Because someone I love is so sick and so tired and weak
 I want to make her laugh because everything's been so goddamn fucking bleak
 But I'm here to give her my love when and while I can
 Because I gotta go back to work like any other working man
 And I went out tonight and I got her Kraus' pizza
 Anything I could do for my beloved friend Theresa
 And I got her a brand new bed cause her back's so fucking bad
 I went to a department store and picked it out with my dad
 I love you, love you, love you, love you Theresa
 And I'm really sorry that I gotta leave you
 I always knew you wanted to play and sing
 I always knew you'd leave Ohio and cross a bunch of oceans and seas
 But there is no sound I love more or that is more healing
 Then when I close my eyes and you sing personally to my kids and me
 And as I walk around the block you live on
 It smells so much like our childhood
 It smells so much like our old neighborhood
 I remember when I first heard Led Zeppelin's "Tea For One"
 Laying by my bedroom window on Valium soaking up the warm afternoon sun rays
 And in those minutes, hours, I was totally content
 And I'll take that memory to my grave as one of my happiest moments
 And I remember you swimming at Turkeyfoot
 Me and my dad were up in his fishing boat
 Tossing our lines out onto the lake
 With the minnow bucket hanging by a stringer off the edge of the boat
 And I remember watching the bobbers and waiting for a bass to take the bait
 And I remember your big happy smile
 While you were wading out there in the water
 And that smile still graces your face
 And the faces of your beautiful young daughters