16 Days lyrics

Artist  : Slobberbone 
Song : 16 Days



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16 DAYS

For sixteen days, I've stayed in
this bedroom
And this Indian Summer, It's made
me sick
I don't use the phone, I don't write no
letters
All I can do is lay here and
sweat

And this wretched house, It falls
down around me
The air has turned foul, the
walls have turned brown
And they rot in the
glow of a single light bulb
Once there was
paint, now there's just dust

And I don't
know why I'm kept a prisoner here
But there's
no fear in these eyes
And I don't know why no
one talks to me
But it's so clear when you try
...

She had grace, and a natural
beauty
She was a girl raised on a farm
A
constant source of disappointment
To both of
her folks, and they don't know why

'Cause
she had a love for a life she suspected
Lay
somewhere else, beyond these crops
But she
couldn't speak, and they wouldn't listen
So
her dreams lay fallow and hope turned to
dust

And I don't know why I'm kept a
prisoner here
But there's no fear in these
eyes
And I don't know why no one talks to
me
But it's so clear when you try
...

We sit in the yard, on broken-down
loungers
Tryin' to grill food on a rusted out
grill
Drinkin' a beer and burnin' our
fingers
Watching the dog pee on the
car

And the trees all look sick now and
the grass has turned brown
And the bird bath's
broken, and the fence fallen down
And the gate,
it hangs crooked on rusted out hinges
And the
heat never leaves when the sun sinks
down

And once we had meaning, but now,
we're just hollow
Once we felt pain, but now
we're just numb
Once there were words, but now
there's just glances
And once we were smart but
now we're just dumb ...
just dumb

And I
don't know why I'm kept a prisoner here
But
there's no fear in these eyes
And I don't know
why no one talks to me
But it's so clear when
you try ...