DESCRIPTION:
Steven Bowers - It Breaks You So

From the Album "Homing" - Released 2008
Produced by Dave Gunning & Steven Bowers

Featuring Kev Corbett (Mandolin), Cathy Porter (Accordion & Piano)

Available on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/steven-bowers/id302209834

Lyrics:

When you are old
And coming home
Some blustery night
Kickin' your winter boots off
I hope I'm there
To hardly hear your return
Sleeping homemade wine off
By the wood stove
And maybe you will come
And lay beside me
And after fifty years
You'll look the same
To this old man with cataracts
Who will love you so
Love you so

And when you're fit to be tied
At your ears
And what they no longer register
Songs of bully mockingbirds who return
To see how much you've silvered
And the crows of years who reappear
To blind you
And leave a trail of footprints by your eyes
Out the door, and down the road
And it breaks you so
Breaks you so

Crying in the canyon of your living room
Thinking time is such a mess
You've become the echo of your mother's voice
And she became your Nan's, I guess
It only seems like yesterday, my darling
We put the spitting images to bed
Where'd they go? Where'd they go?
To make their own.

And it breaks you so.
It breaks you so.