Soul Lay Open - Terence Ryan

There’s an above-ground pool

There in the backyard

Threw pennies in the whole time I was growing up

Figured, if life really wished me well

It would turn into a wishing well

And all our suffering would go

Too old at a damn young age

Bedroom like a bird sung cage

On a new couch with each new Christmas

Won’t somebody do these dishes?

Sure as hell I was not the one

To come around when it came undone

Put second on a winter hit list

All light just went missing

Strong roots but damn these limbs, out on one

Cold nights, hard wind

Came down in the yard and split

Kin and timber

Soul lay open

Soul lay open

Eighteen when the madness stopped

In love with the runaways' daughters

Each one with the same damn name

Took care of them, forgot me

Sold gateway to friends who gone

Took shrooms in the night, we formed a

Oath we would never take for granted

Each other, this future

Strong roots but damn these limbs, out on one

Cold nights, hard wind

Came down in the yard and split

Kin and timber

Soul lay open

Soul lay open

Kin and timber

Bold, brave, the middle kid

Ever since a child I’ve been soul searching

Soul lay open

Soul lay open

Soul lay open

Soul lay open

There’s an above-ground pool

There in the backyard

Threw pennies in the whole time I was growing up

Figured, if life really wished me well

It would turn into a wishing well