Ten Year Teardrop - Extra life

Talking the talk with a big white man

Talking sharp, talking cool

Talking so smooth and so fast

A business trip faster than the speed of feelings

On a big man’s trip, I get the memo last

Talking the talk, I get the memo last

Memento mori, my girl long past

A mop of hair appears in my suitcase

My long gone sweetheart peeks out her cute face

Playful and young as she was in life

Playful and young as she was in '99

Talking the talk, I get the memo last

Memento mori, my girl long past

I thought I buried you

How did I carry you all these years?

I won’t break down, won’t let the big men see my tears

I buried you deep, deep down in the dirt of years

I won’t break down

Fellas, where were we?

Talking the talk so I don’t break down

Ten years for a tear to hit the ground

Ten years for a tear to hit the ground

I’m breaking down, I can’t talk right

How can you smile?

How can you hide from me like this?

Gutted to the core, I’m breaking down

I’m breaking down

I buried you, I buried you

Ten years deep in dirt

We buried you

Gutted to the core, I’m breaking down

I’m breaking down

Gutted to the core, I’m breaking down

I’m breaking down

I can’t talk right

I buried you, I buried you

How can you smile?

How can you hide from me all these years?

Gutted to the core, I’m breaking down

I’m breaking down

How I missed you

I love you, I love you

How I missed you

We buried you, we buried you

I love you, I love you, I love you

Ten years deep in dirt

We buried you, we buried you

Ten years deep

I love you, I love you, I love you

My cries turn to those of 40 children

An unruly class that is my charge

They cry for a man

Not an aged crumbling boy

I hold my tongue and take my wooden club

On each little shoulder, a firm and silent prod

They come to order, one by one

The Mothers silently nod

Singing the song with the old black ladies

I’ve done my job, the elders nod

Beginning the ride with the wise black ladies

Where were we?

All praise be God…