Assisted Living Lyrics

Life started out with such promise

Adventure and joy up ahead

But here at the end I'm exhausted

Flat on my back in my bed

Muzak on repeat here is constant

The people consistently kind

Their job is to help me to leave this life

I'm barely here most of the time

This is Assisted living

This is Assisted death

Memory care

A comb through my hair

Countdown to my very

Last breath

All of the feelings I have now

Are sung in a minor key

These are the days

The very last days

The very last days

To be me

Grief is the color of everything

Melancholy the taste

Each day there's a long list of activities

All of it feels like a waste

I pull in one breath then another

It's like there's a weight on my chest

That's about all I can handle today

Please lie me down for a rest

People are talking around me

I have no idea what they say

It sounds like the murmur you hear in a church

When all of the people pray

I'm sure the words matter to someone

To me they're all

Wrapped up in gauze

If I'm leaving this world

In months, weeks or days

Then what is the point of this pause?

I'm not really sure where I am and

I'm not even sure of the time

They're moving me now

For the third or fourth time

I'm not sure the reason why

Loneliness lives in here with us

Was staying with Jack in Room three

Jack died last week or the week before

So Loneliness moved in with me

These are the days

The very last days

The very last days

To be me