loretta

Iron & Wine

Look at the shadow on our trees
Seems to mean an early dusk
Loretta looked up, the grey sky low
Two-by-two on the bus

Water and anger in our house
Though she spoke of rainbows
Reachin the roof with soakin shoes
River s up, where d she go?

You re wiser, oh Loretta
You re wiser, and only twenty-five

During the TV floatin by
Through our room and out the door
Loretta, she prayed for what to do
If it rained anymore

She was a wash-cloth wet with love
I was not; she was mine
I m in the olive tree next door
River s up to my eyes

You re wiser, oh Loretta
Much wiser, and only just in time