Lyrics
The styrofoam cup from Tacoma General
Has your faded lipstick print on the fragile rim.
It’s the third Tuesday in November, the light is clinical,
And I’m mapping the pale cartography on your skin.
[Chorus]
And you, on my tongue, taste like hospital water,
a little bit of metal, a little bit of hope.
I am holding your hand, but the feeling gets softer,
just a phantom limb at the end of its rope.
[Verse 2]
There’s Lorazepam dust on the bedside table,
the systolic sigh of a machine I can’t name.
You feel like a footnote in a forgotten fable
I’d re-write if the ending wasn’t always the same.
[Chorus]
And you, on my tongue, taste like hospital water,
a little bit of metal, a little bit of hope.
I am holding your hand, but the feeling gets softer,
just a phantom limb at the end of its rope.
[Bridge]
"It’s a matter of hours," the night nurse said.
I watched your knuckles go white on the rail of the bed.
YOU’RE NOT—
[Outro]
Your hand is an anchor.
I’m just tired of the water.
About Juniper Rust
Juniper Rust dropped out of college at nineteen to become the primary caregiver for her mother, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. For two years, her world was the clinical, quiet landscape of a sickroom in her childhood home in Tacoma, Washington. After her mother passed, she inherited her father's 1978 Fender Jaguar and began writing songs again, not as an escape, but as a direct…
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