Phoenix Folds

For as long as I remember, there was always a hand nearby

I'd fall, and someone caught me — I never learned to be afraid

I thought that's just how the world was built, not luck, just how it worked

Never asked the price, never asked who was paying it

Spend your last money, don't be afraid

There'll be more

I'd lose my way and keep walking, like that was just how it's done

Someone was always there to take me back and let it go

I never said thank you — I didn't know it could be any other way

I thought it wasn't mercy, just the rule I lived by

Spend your last money, don't be afraid

There'll be more

And I believed that's how it was

I'm waiting for footsteps that always used to come

Waiting for a hand that always used to find me

The silence won't explain what I did wrong

I call out — and now I'm the one being called

The weak ones around me wait for me to lift them up

I reach — and don't know which hand does that

I want to be what others were for me — and I don't know how

I call out too. No one comes.

Spend your last money, don't be afraid

There'll be more

I keep saying it like a prayer that stopped working