Conversation MCM (Full Mix)
Album: Americana StoriesLyrics
Once I asked him, was it worth it all
You traded your answers now for alcohol
And the feel of flesh and blood that wasn't my mother's
And he said son, it's not that I no longer loved your mother
But I missed the us before we happened to each other
And love is broke you should know
Then he said he had to go
He'd finished feeling and it began to show
Cause years passed with no words or signs of your return
Just spaces in rooms filled with silence from you
No regret in your voice
No kind words or praise
For the wife that you abandoned or the son you left for her to raise
Your words come slurred
From a pay phone on the side of the road
Your hands they shakin'
But it ain't from the cold
Oh what shame can do
Oh how pride it can bind
I remember the letter you wrote
On the kitchen table you left for me to find
It said you had to go
You finished feeling and it began to show
Cause years passed with no words or signs of your return
Just spaces in rooms filled with silence from you
No regret in your voice
No kind words or praise
For the wife that you abandoned or the son you left for her to raise
Son you left for her to raise