Broken Sunbeams

Little light, summer is a lie

A worm on a hook, and it worked on most of us

Couldn't fly, burned in the fire

Could see it in your look, wouldn't leave without a fuss

But every day is only yesterday by tomorrow

Won't you say it with me, come and play in the sorrow

I've been waiting for you, wild and gay, let me borrow

All the love you left to make, and all the fire you couldn't shake

Lake Michigan, wash us clean

Heaven hides the end in broken sunbeams

I'm twenty-two, still running into you

I see you in the daylight and the doorway of my dreams

When I wake up from a nightmare, undone at the seams

You're frozen at seventeen with a vape-pen smokescreen

I think it's survivor's guilt

I've never been home on the 4th of July

The day that the town where the factories died

Comes back to life

It's a cigarette, a smokestack, and a mean side-eye

There's no midwestern kindness

And no one says hi

When you pass them by on the street

At least the football team will win

Leave church on Sundays for the game

Your faith in Jesus wearing thin

Lake Michigan, wash us clean

Heaven hides the end in broken sunbeams

I thought I didn't miss it

But the further away I am

The more I know how much it gave to me

I thought I didn't miss it

But I'm beginning to understand

Home isn't such a bad place to be

And you're in the parking lot sunset

Peach colored skies

And I remember your smile

And your big brown eyes, you were singing

Lake Michigan, wash us clean

Heaven hides the end in broken sunbeams

Broken sunbeams