A wake in Piedmont Lyrics

The room is filled with murmering voices

My eyes are blurred as the faces pass by

I'm mumbling 'thank you'

Over and over

Eyes fixed on the door waiting for you

When will you arrive and we can back home together?

In this silent farewell, I feel no closure

I traded you for flowers that will die too

A parade of faces float by your casket

A wake in Piedmont, where I wait for you

Flowers and tears and sympathetic gestures

Devastation is this year's understatement

"I'm sorry for your loss" is a repeating record

A needle skip of cliches I can't take

I disassociate from the scene before me

Expecting you walk in the door

In this silent farewell, I feel no closure

I traded you for flowers that will die too

A parade of faces float by your casket

A wake in Piedmont, where I wait for you

The clock ticks, but time feels suspended

Memories flood, but reality remains distant

At this wake in Piedmont where I wait hopelessly for you

In this silent farewell, I feel no closure

I traded you for flowers that will die too

A parade of faces float by your casket

A wake in Piedmont, where I wait for you

In this silent farewell, there's no closure

I traded you for these dying flowers

While they all walk by your casket

I wait here at this wake in Piedmont

Where I'm waiting hopelessly

Hopelessly waiting for you