Bones, we watched bones
Through the laundromat's fumes in the cold
There's a VA hospital that you and I'd walk by on our way to diners and beggars in Popeyes and now
Did you know that you are the guardian of a part of my life that I had forgotten?
There's a song that you learned from your mom
And you thought if you'd call it out she'd come along

And, bro, you never know
Just what she's thinking about on trains home
Pain, it's all the same
It's always helping you out when you're down

Remember that tree we carved while you freezed?
And the rivers of shoes left to rot out in Queens
Where there's something to say, but I'm too afraid
And I whisper it once, now it's gone, it's okay, I say
"Kid, do you know that you are the guardian of a part of my life that I had forgotten?"
There's a song that you learned from your mom and you thought if you'd call it out she'd come along

Did you know that I've thought about you every year in the cold where the train rattles through?
And I never told you, it's just what I do