Stay Now
Stay now
Here
Where we are
Girl, stay here
Stay now
Here now
Sure this place is....
Well you know
But it's home
Long before me
HER name swims through the air
Choking smoke everywhere
I can't breathe
I can't see
She makes them all kneel
Makes them smile
What happened here
I'm asking all the while
I've never even seen HER
But HER photographs
Float around my head
Never talked to HER
But they ask me about HER
Tell me all about HER
Everything about HER
This place is haunted
And it doesn't even know it
The name of the town
Should be changed to HER now
Here I am
I stand
A stranger in this place
Only leave shallow steps
Maybe no one will notice
Don't step too deep
Too deep
Don't step too deep
They won't notice if I
Don't step too deep
This place is haunted
And it doesn't even know it
No,
Stay now
Here girl
Stay here
Here now
Copyright © Joy Bohland | Year Posted 2014
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