maura Lyrics

Wintertime in Western Massachusetts

Dorm room full of boxes and excuses

You packed a bag of clothes and books for class

It has to mean you planned on coming back

Speeding north through two fresh feet of snow

Telling no one where you'd left to go

Caught in grainy black and white by ATM

Your parents never saw your face again

They looked for footprints in the snow

But there was nothing left to go on

Your father's worried and your sisters need to know

Bright blue ribbon round the bark

That saw you slip into the dark

Eighteen years ago when you became a ghost

And why do I feel like I know you?

Cause I've been lost on those same roads at 22

Jumping on thin ice, knowing we'll fall through

But we still do

Blue and red flash rings around your Saturn

Cheap wine on the dash, mistook for spatter

When you hit the bank at 112 bend

Scared to tell your dad you failed again?

They looked for footprints in the snow

But there was nothing left to go on

Your father's worried, and your sisters need to know

Bright blue ribbon round the bark

That saw you slip into the dark

Eighteen years ago when you became a ghost

And why do I feel like I know you?

Would they make a myth out of me too?

Cotton candy pain no one should consume

But we still do

Children tell stories

Wolves in warm clothing

Gingerbread horror

But the truth's more unholy

They looked for footprints in the snow

But there was nothing left to go on

Your father's worried and your sisters need to know

Bright blue ribbon round the bark

That saw you slip into the dark

Eighteen years ago when you became a ghost

Eighteen years ago when you became a ghost