Nursery Rhyme - Amanda Shires

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

And I know it’s time, I know it’s way past time

My breath, a prayer, I’m holding in

I know you’re coming soon

But until then I’m keeping distracted

Avoiding the growing truth

I’ve been digging up weeds

And lucid dreaming of sky’s degrees of blue

I’ve been staying up late and sleeping in

There’s only so much to do

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

And I know it’s time, I know it’s time

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

And I know it’s time, I know it’s way past time

I’ve washed the car and stained the deck

Pulled a randomly growing vine

Had it been bull nettle

I’d have killed some more time crying

I’ve been reading the classics, scanning the news

It all goes in the mouth of the muse

Between planting trees and avoiding parties

I’ve burned some holes in my shoes

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

And I know it’s time, I know it’s time

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

And I know it’s time, I know it’s way past time

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

And I know it’s time, I know it’s time

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

If you aren’t tip-toeing, then you’re stomping across my mind

And I know it’s time, I know it’s way past time