Kids Table

A kiss goodbye on the train tonight

Made me reminisce, we were young and wild

It’s a parting gift to your wife and child

A loaf of bread and a sideways smile

It’s a cloudy day

The sky’s choked up but it doesn’t rain

All the trees and the billboards look afraid

We’re going to a better place

Happiness you can’t escape

Sitting at the kids table on a holiday

Acting out your favorite scene on a big flat screen

While they’re all watching for eternity

It's a masterpiece

As you walk the block through the aftershock

You can get to that spot that was there, now it’s not

We would meet in the court where the people shop

I was a queen for a day in Camelot

Guess I’m over the hill like a daffodil on a window sill

Withering in the sunshine of free will, still

We’re going to a better place

Happiness you have to taste

Sitting at the kids table on a holiday

Acting out the final scene on a big flat screen

While they’re all watching for eternity

Blasting off to outer space

Small step in a big rat race

Sitting at the kids table with an empty plate

That I appreciate