red apple falls

the widow says

it's hard to live

with a man

a man like me

the widow says

it's hard to live

on the lonely version of love i give

and i've seen the way her eyes light up

when she looks at the man in a family way

he's made of iron and he knows the way

and when i think about my brother dying

and my parents trying

to slowly do themselves in

inch by inch

day by day

and the telephone's ring

is like a banshee wail

the widow says i broke her first

of course i say

just the reverse

and we can't get past this

something she did

on the 14th of june

because of something i said

on the 13th of june

and we can't get past this

and if we could lock our lips

and block our noses

and swim beneath the barriers

and come up clean

on the other side

but we can't get past this