Wounded Healer

[Verse 1]

His footprints are fading away from the beach

We're not a family to pray or to preach

But daddy's best friend took a handful of pills

And now he's at a podium making a speech

Yesterday night after dark

He carefully wrote his remarks

But everyone said what he put on his page

So he threw it away and went straight from the heart

[Hook]

I thought this was a party

But all my friends are leaving

And I still want to play

You wrecked me when you stepped out

'Cause you're the wounded healer

And you're supposed to stay

[Verse 2]

A year's a bottle in a bucket of trash

It'll tip over the more that it stacks

Didn't notice it 'till now

But dad's been moving slower every time we go play catch

I'm scared of the day when he'll carry a cane

I carry his dream, I carry his name

And when papa's gone, he will never be gone

Because the sound of our sneeze is the same

So God bless, I hear your voice in mine

And I wanna stop time like a carnival ride, because

I don't know what I'm saying, but I mean it

I don't know what I'm saying, but I mean it

I don't know what I'm saying, but I mean it

I don't know what I'm saying, but I mean it

I mean it, said

I thought this was a party

(Harmonica solo)

[Hook]

I thought this was a party

But all my friends are leaving

And I still want to play

You wrecked me when you stepped out

'Cause you're the wounded healer

And you're supposed to stay