Marjorie

Never be so kind you forget to be clever         Never be so clever you forget to be kind     And if I didn’t know better   I’d think you were talking to me now   If I didn’t know better   I’d think you were still around   What died didn’t stay dead   What died didn’t stay dead   You’re alive you’re alive in my head   What died didn’t stay dead   What died didn’t stay dead   You’re alive so alive   Never be so polite you forget your power   Never wield such power you forget to be polite   And if I didn’t know better   I’d think you were listening to me now   If I didn’t know better   I’d think you were still around   What died didn’t stay dead   What died didn’t stay dead   You’re alive you’re alive in my head   What died didn’t stay dead   What died didn’t stay dead   You’re alive so alive   The autumn chill that wakes me up   You loved the amber skies so much   Long limbs and frozen swims   You’d always go past where our feet could touch   And I complained the whole way there   The car ride back and up the stairs  F   I should’ve asked you questions  C   I should’ve asked you how to be   Asked you to write it down for me   Should’ve kept every grocery store receipt   ’Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me   Watched as you signed your name Marjorie   All your closets of backlogged dreams   And how you left them all to me   What died didn’t stay dead   What died didn’t stay dead   You’re alive you’re alive in my head   What died didn’t stay dead   What died didn’t stay dead   You’re alive so alive   And if I didn’t know better   I’d think you were singing to me now   If I didn’t know better   I’d think you were still around   I know better   But I still feel you all around   I know better   But you’re still around (        )