Kerri Powers: blog

JOSEPHINE (YOU GOT NOTHING BUT TIME)

c. Kerripowerssongs, BMI

You're lying with his pillow trying hard to see his face

Got to close your eyes

To see the lines around his mouth

And it's keeping you awake

Hope's drawn in from the headlights

Cast through the blinds from down the street

You won't hear the door close in the driveway

But swear you feel him on the sheets

Josephine

You got nothing but time

It'll be all right tomorrow

Box his clothes up for the church

Sort through a closet fallen hems and mended seams

Maybe keep that old blue shirt

Learn to bleed the radiators

Every night's too long and cold

You'll be the one to set the clocks back from now on

You thought you'd be the first to go

Josephine

You got nothing but time

BRIDGE: Count the loose change on his dresser

It won't amount to much

Won't amount to much at all

Josephine

You got nothing but time

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