The Vault In the Attic
Not there please no
There in the attic
Packed away in the vault
Locked, closed the box
The box from long
Ago, can't travel that
Tar and gravel road
Where in horizon ends
Not there please no
Can't remember that
Day, it is closed
That box has a lid
So please go, go
Okay so you've got to know
The memory that hurts so
The day my mother left me
Never to return
She couldn't help
Being called away
She had to go home
"She was a lady
And every lady
Knows exactly
The time to leave the room"
(The last stanza is a direct quote from the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes". One of my favorite
films because I can relate to the woman who was in the mid-life crises.)
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