Carolyn comes back from the bar

She’s not steady but oh

She’s ready to go

She knows that gasoline will settle

What the bourbon never can

Covers the basement and soaks the attic floor

Kids are with her mother and there

Isn’t any other soul

To see her as she’s coming down the stairs

Take her name out of your phone

Drop her from your list of targets

Cast her file out to the wind

Carolyn won’t answer any more

You can hardly call it living

If you’re only passing time

How you waste what you’ve been given

Years build out of days just slipping by

And you think you’ve seen it all

And you goddam surely know

You’ve seen it all

She leaves her children with a scar

Gone blurry like a pixelated star

They’re too young to remember

Deep in the night she sets a fire

From floor to roof

It’s billowing down

Burning the dark away to

Beat back those who’ve seen it all