Still Baby
[Verse 1] Twenty-eight years of other people's pain You'd walk through the door and ask who needs to eat Your hands could hold a heartbeat or a name And still you'd find the courage to repeat There's a photo in your wallet, faded at the crease Two kids in a booth, the flash too bright You carry it like something you can't release Like proof that some things come out right [Chorus] You still call me baby, Cheryl, and I don't mind I've got a key and a mortgage and a life I'm trying to find But every time that song comes on, you go somewhere I can't see And I just want to sit here — in that silence — and let you know it's me [Verse 2] The soup is on the stove, no recipe in sight Just what your mama's hands once showed your hands Something passed like that don't need to be written right It lives in ways that only daughters understand I couldn't find the words the day they called my name I looked out and you were already gone somewhere Not crying loud — just still, the way a candle flame Goes quiet when it finally gets some air [Chorus] You still call me baby, Cheryl, and I don't mind I've got a key and a mortgage and a life I'm trying to find But every time that song comes on, you go somewhere I can't see And I just want to sit here — in that silence — and let you know it's me