Family Fortune (Live)

Tell me do you believe in god anymore

Was it the cancer, the chemo all the bedsores

Her hair circling the shower drain

Her body an applecore

To see a smile once so strong

Now a Mona Lisa mouth just barely holding on

A heap of cinder in her eyes

Now the fires gone

I wrote a letter

To your mother

The day after she died

And I'm no good at funerals

And I'm worse with saying goodbyes

And I'm so sorry

Because every day when you wake up

You will remember how easy it is

To lose the ones you love

Tell me did you believe in god before

Maybe the drugs you gave him could have saved him

But you'll never be sure

You might have been the medicine

But you'll never be his cure

To see a smile once so strong

Now a Mona Lisa mouth just barely holding on

A heap of cinder in his eyes

Now the fires gone

I wrote a letter

To your mother

The day after she died

And I'm no good at funerals

And I'm worse with saying goodbyes

And I'm so sorry

Because every day when you wake up

You will remember how easy it is

To lose the ones you love

Nobody told me that dying's so ugly

I thought you just slept forever above me

Nobody told me that living's so lonely

I had to watch you get buried below me