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Get To Know Me
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Yesterday is mine forever
I try to forget her, but she never leaves
I try to reconsider, but she never bleeds
I try to forgive her, but she never sees
Me at seventeen in a hospital room
Beside my mama on a hospital bed
Holding my mama’s hand
Telling me she’ll be coming home soon
I hand her a walkman and cassette
Happy mother’s day
I press play on the Sony Yellow
She smiles when she hears the stock sound
Drum and cello melody I played myself
“Is this you?” she says so … loud
Talking over the volume of the headphones
I nod yes - Her face goes tomato
Both eyes closed for the song I wrote
I start crying when my mom’s eyes open
She wipes my tears with her thumb, and said…
“Derek, you’re a good boy.”
I still see it like it’s yesterday - And yesterday is mine forever
I try to forget her, but she never leaves
I try to forgiver he, but she never sees
Me at twenty-five in the visiting room
Of a rehab center, listening to
My dad tell me he’s a prisoner, Living with imbeciles
And I’m the reason he’s living between these prison walls
Lost his peripheral vision from the seizures
Minor brain damage, Therefore he needed rehab to learn to adjust to it
Spent our time yelling at me for what booze did
Naah…for what you did!
The nine o’clock alarm meant home time
Then we’d stand up and hug till nine o’five
Same time tomorrow night, same conversation
Dad waved while I waited for the elevator
I still see it like it’s yesterday - And yesterday is mine forever
I try to forget her, but she never leaves
I try to forgive her, but she never sees…
Me.

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from the d​.​ark tape [2013], released June 24, 2013

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