Take away the hour before dawn The lists and the reasons and the miles that I've run I've waited too long To keep waiting so long For something I didn't know would come Take away blankets of regret The large and the small each and all that I've met I've lived for too long To think we live so long The payoff is creating the debt Take away the fear of myself Of the plans and the drawings and the places they dwell I've dreamt for too long To keep sleeping so long When some things aren't meant for the shelf Take away the rocks we stacked at the lake last summer Take away the poems that I wrote about being drawn to the water And forgiving you Take away growing up afraid But leave the trees that I climbed to hide And the scars on my knees Take away understanding leaving at a young age Take away forgetting it all at sixteen Take away the vices that we make The kind you gave into until you died our grandmother's floor at 28 Take away tomorrow until I know I can see today Take away the minutes before bed When familiar scenes dance in and out of my head I've thought for too long To keep thinking so long I should get to tomorrow instead