Parker's Mood - Joe Henry

Where’s my sock?

Where’s my other shoe?

I didn’t know what time it was

When I came o

The only light in here

Is fmy flickering TV

Watching back at me.

Oh, my love is here to stay

Saints alive

And all the saints be praised

I see them all around me now

They’ve been called and raised;

Their jaws gone slack

Their yellow nails long and curling back

To scratch the phantom of ache

Of our lost days…

Oh, my love is here to stay

I came home this morning

I was dead on my feet

Drunk on the victory

Of my own defeat

Now, I’m reeling on the ceiling

But what yard-bird law is this

When a heart in chains is what remains

The prelude to a kiss?

God is in the details

Of the smoke in the air

The devil, he’s a pauper prince

Nesting in your hair

The things we put together

The world will ear a part

But I’ve beat them to the start

Alone the way.

Oh, my love is here to stay