Red Bandanna

RED BANDANNA

Your red bandanna is still lying where you left it
There's a ghost on my doorstep watching you go
He sings a melody, it isn't quite real it's not quite solid
He sings a melody soft and slow and sweet

All I ever wanted was to see where the rain goes
All I ever wanted was to know why it snows in the spring

When I woke up this morning everything seemed to be the wrong color
White had turned to green
There was no purple or gold and the blue was grey and black had turned to brown
The only thing that was the same was your bandanna on the ground

All I ever wanted was to see where the rain goes
All I ever wanted was to know why it snows in the spring

Did you color it red to hide the stains of your eternal bleeding?
Did you color it red to camouflage your fear?
Did you color it red to see if it would change?
Or is red your favorite color that you see blooming through the snow in the spring?

It sings under the ground, and it
Curdles all my bones, and it
Turns the world back into gold and blue and black and brown

And it sings to the sky
And it doesn't ask why
But I'm so tired
And I want to go
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