Lily Talmers - This One’s on Me lyrics

It did glide in like a sunbeam
On a Thursday afternoon
So I nursed it like a sick kid
It just looked so much like you

Feel the stiff light, wish it goodbye
Like a passing tractor beam
Deep October, she’s a dear old friend
And a tightly woven seam

Between the daylight
And the sharp night of the heavy hearkening
It’s there I greet you as a lonely child
Whispering, "This one’s on me"

We grew up there, in the thin air
Of the heavy slated sky
Endless winter, we could nursе her
We could cure hеr if we tried

Are you listening? Have you fooled me?
Memories like an elegy
Why is something trying to push me
To admit this one’s on me?

Is my silence just a violent thing?
Do I house a crooked mind?
Happy people, try to be like them
Robed in mystery and kindness

Skim the surface
Let yourself sink back to innocent belief
It’s there you’ll find me, I’ll be smiling
My old friend, this one’s on me