looking back back at his mother but she had vanished yeah she was gone cast off amongst the shoppers right where she vanished in aisles remote in a universe with room to grow try and find my way in the dark but we can t even see who we are drifting far from the harbor without a paddle without a prayer crying in outdoor furniture almost colliding with shopping carts when you re ready when you re ready when you re ready when you re ready in a bloated universe we re lost try and find my way in the dark try and find the keys to my car and the world is tipping over the salt of the earth is blowing in the solar wind reunited once again i love you son and i love you mother more my plates are expired i m writing rubber checks in grocery stores i drove all night and my eyes are tired i bit my nails to the quick before i reached your door when i was seventeen i had a beatific vision that i flew away on the wings of a carrier pigeon out of stagnant humidity out of growing complacency from a brackish pond to a raging sea from a certainty to no guarantee i know you swam upstream for most of your life dodging the grizzlies my sister and i thank you for all the sacrifices you made for us but it s a different world than the one you knew and kids gotta do what they gotta do and maybe there were things that were shitty about the old world too yeah the old world yeah the old world too yeah the old world too and the old world too yeah the old world too and the old world too yeah the old world uh uh uh uh