we're too busy Lyrics

Never noticed before working

All of the facilities for skilled nursing

The abandoned beneath banners promising

Safety to the top of Maslow's

Hierarchy of needs

So I'll just keep talking to you

On the off chance you can hear me speak

And you're in there listening

If you could respond to me

I'd be too scared to ask you

What's worse between

The hours of silence alone

Or waiting to be cleaned up

Self-conscious of my condescending speech

Sanitizing sins of neglect with medical terms to

Scrub my conscience clean

And I don't know how to fix it

But I know we're too busy

When we've forgotten

We'll be infirm and elderly

So I'll just keep talking to you

On the off chance you can hear me speak

And you're in there

Wherever you might be

Has he already come?

Sweeping you up from where your body lies

Like a contracted husk

Eyes wide, staring into space