What Good Am I? - The Staves

Take me back to when I was a child

My body’s cold and tired

I’ve never been the kind of woman

To pray for my situation to change

But I can’t remember my name anymore

Oh, how I was long ago in a house, in my own home

What good am I?

I don’t know

Lord, I don’t know

I wish I had a mind more present

And a heart that belong to here and now

As the years roll by, I sit beneath an inky sky and wait

Ponder this past of mine

And I try to remember

And I yearn to recall

How I was long ago in a house, in my own home

What good am I?

I don’t know

Lord, I don’t know

Lord, I don’t know

Overgrown and

Overthrown and

On my own now

Ooh, body of stone

I’m lonesome and low

What good am I?

I don’t know

Lord, I don’t know