Snake Plant (The Past Is Still Alive)

Snake plants, Florida water

I only wanted ever be a good daughter

Soft hands, gold rings

Try to remember most everything

Like feeding grapefruits to the cows

Hold my belly while I'm laughing out loud

A bathing suit on a two-day drive

Malaria, you can't sleep at night

Lemon tree and a mango for the baby

Record player you can call me Sister Sadie

Gonna cut a rope and tie her to the tree

When the hurricane comes, the hurricane comes

I know your face, I know your smell

I know that you were living in hell

Pee in the bushes while I wait for a train

Under the bridge when it starts to rain

I never got to ride the sunset route

But I drank enough, a hundred proof

Campfire on the superfund site

Garbage island, fucking in the moonlight

Play my song for the barrel of freaks

And we go shoplifting when it's time to eat, and

They don't even really know my name

I'm so happy that we escaped from where we came

Tattoo with a needle and thread

Most of our old friends are dead

So, test your drugs

Remember Narcan

There's a war on the people

What don't you understand?

There's fentanyl in everything

Don't become an angel with a broken wing

We need you back down here on earth, and

Nothing is as painful as birth, well

Time flies when you're getting old, but

I was born with a baby boy soul

Maybe someday I'll see you again

In a field, a war, a kingdom of sand, and

Maybe we could smile again, or

Maybe we could dance again

I'd kiss your lips, I'd hold your hands, oh

Maybe we could dance again, well

I was young when I left home

I never stopped running

Used to think I was alone

But nothing will stop me now

Nothing will stop me now

Oh, nothing will stop me now

Well, nothing can stop, nothing can stop me now

Me now

Me now

Me now

Nothing will stop me now