Caught Up Blues Lyrics

How could you not look back

At your own at what you came from

And find all the same ancient shame

Is still the measure of how far you've come

When I was fifteen

You put all these deadbolts on our house

And kept the keys and the connection to me

Sorta blinked out

I never understood you after that

But I came to be grateful

For the way that the years

Let me down

Now it's easy to welcome

Any light to be found

And it's around you and your new

Widower now

Meanwhile my own bride and I

We're looking at the odds

And it's a full-time job

To keep giving a fuck

It's a cheap shot

But it's true

All anyone seems to know how to do

Is get caught up

When it was over

I signed as a witness

Stared at the sight

Of my father's name

I spent a long afternoon with the family

Such as it was

And the clear-cut lakeside view

Was humming

As I talked with my sister's eldest one

Abigail

About leaving home as

Something we were owed and

About what was coming