Grey Days

Dressed in lilac
 With a scarf wrapped 'round your head
 All that beauty fading in the dark
 Hope and youth they with come the grey
 Dressed in Jackie
 Dress she wore some fall before
 Revolutionary for the day
 Technicolor made it stay the same
 Baby, baby, baby, you have to leave this town
 Flag in one hand
 Polished shoes for perfect march
 Eight hours of practice is too long
 With no one there to see your victory dance
 Like a kitten
 You sure adored the sun
 Ocean view, the blue called out for you
 Swim suit on, what kept you in the grey
 Love the city
 Yet you stay in that old house
 Mother's voice the only noise you know
 Doing what she loves the most, not you