Real Death-Mount Eerie

[ti:Real Death] [ar:Mount Eerie] [al:A Crow Looked At Me] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Real Death - Mount Eerie [00:01.50]Death is real [00:02.97] [00:04.27]Someone's there and then they're not [00:07.58]And it's not for singing about [00:09.56] [00:10.39]It's not for making into art [00:13.60] [00:14.45]When real death enters the house all poetry is dumb [00:19.87] [00:20.79]When I [00:21.98] [00:22.90]Walk in [00:24.82] [00:26.21]Into the room where you were [00:31.14] [00:33.26]And look [00:35.34] [00:36.74]Into the emptiness instead [00:44.68] [00:45.84]All fails [00:47.82] [00:52.31]My knees fail [00:54.00] [00:58.24]My brain fails [01:00.67] [01:04.92]Words fail [01:06.29] [01:11.34]Crusted with tears catatonic and raw [01:14.70]I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail [01:18.94] [01:23.91]A week after you died [01:26.06]A package with your name on it came [01:29.00]And inside was a gift for our daughter [01:32.20]You had ordered in secret [01:33.78]And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed [01:37.62] [01:42.87]A backpack for when she goes to school [01:45.99]A couple years from now [01:47.65]You were thinking ahead to a future [01:50.26]You must have known deep down would not include you [01:53.82]Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down [01:57.13]Being swallowed into a silence that is bottomless and real [02:03.06] [02:07.91]It's dumb [02:09.18] [02:10.70]And I don't want to learn anything from this [02:13.61] [02:14.57]I love you