Mason Jar

(I gotta play a little tune on the piano, I'm down here today, this is a December night, I'll play the Melody of Love, originally that's a waltz, but I'll play it in a slow way, it's a beautiful thing I think, so I'm gonna try it, Melody of Love)

I met a girl
And her name sounds
Something like sunflowers
And liquor
Had a brain child
Named her impatience
Until she got bigger
But now that she's grown
I call her the moment
'Cause that's where we live
And that's where we'll stay
Remain, remain, remain
For a long, long time

Said he saw a silhouette
Drinking an orange soda pop
On a migrant camp in Dakota
With a rising pink sun backdrop
And found purpose

And I said
"I found my love
Hidden in a mason jar"
And I drank it so fast
That it made me sick
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
Reached out from the bottom
Pulled the sky to the ground
‘Till it touches down and the
Whole town turns blue

Blue is sadness
Blue is water
Water is life
And life is the sky’s daughter
And the sons and daughters
Of the moms and fathers
Caught in a conscience
Predicated by a vvvvvvvvvvv
Like me

Fuckin’ artless market
That harvests heartless
Harpists to say nothin’

(I found love hidden in a mason jar)

Had a trip with a mentor
That told me to write on my blood
Told me there’s more to this world
Than my stomach and love
All I could think was

I met a girl
And her name sounds
Something like sunflowers
And liquor
Had a brain child
Named her impatience
Until she got bigger
But now that she's grown
I call her the moment
'Cause that's where we live
And that's where we'll stay
Remain, remain, remain
For a long, long time

That was one winter ago when
Four winters ago I met her
But then three winters ago
She tried to leave and
Two winters ago I let her
Well, one night ago
She told me she was mine
Four nights ago she could do better
Three nights ago she sunk
Down the river
Two nights ago she was gone forever

That’s when I caught myself
Thinking too hard
About the look she shot from the
Seat of my car
Told myself those looks
Don’t mean nothin’
What the fuck do I need
With a mason jar
But I stand around stand and
You think what you think
Tryin’ to build a house off of
Three sets of blueprints
And none of the power or
Plumbing will work
But we’ll wind up tied up
In three days with a newsprint

I met a girl
And her name sounds
Something like sunflowers
And liquor
Had a brain child
Named her impatience
Until she got bigger
But now that she's grown
I call her the moment
'Cause that's where we live
And that's where we'll stay
Remain, remain, remain
For a long, long time