Jeffrey Martin - I Didn't Know lyrics

I grew up in a brick house
On 15th behind the bakery
Where my dad worked his bones into knots
My mom was a watcher, my mom was a listener
My mom was afraid to leave the house

I used to walk the city, winter in Cincinnati
Make you cry razors from the cold
I hear mom and dad fighting
The busted oven and then they're laughing
And she's chasing him down the
Hallway with a towel

I didn't know that they didn't know
What they were doing
I didn't know that they didn't know
What they were doing

I woke to the sound of sadness
And tiptoed out the bedroom
To find dad crying at the window by the phone


In the morning I had not forgotten
And the whole house felt different
I hugged my dad and left
For school older and alone
Mom said his sister was a drinker and
They tried everything to help here
But sometimes a story has already been told
And I laid in bed wondering
What was already written
And who gets to decide where I go?
And I laid in bed wondering
What was already written
And who gets to decide where I go?

I didn't know that they didn't know
What they were doing
I didn't know that they didn't know
What they were doing