Favourite Patient - Bear's Den

When you get home from work

You change out your shirt

I watch the light just play and fall

Right off your skin

In the flickers of the moonlight

I can tell that something’s not right

That there’s a whole world in there

That you won’t let me in

To understand it how could anyone even begin?

So you ask me how my day went

I try to feign some sense of achievement

And I run my mouth till I forget

I haven’t asked you a thing

My selfish little mind ran away with itself again

Maybe I’m too scared to ask you

Or it’s the insignificance of all that I do

When I spend my time walking around in all I’ve left unsaid

While you’ve been working all night and the ward’s running out of beds

I finally ask you how your day went

You say you lost your favourite patient

While I was working on a masterpiece no one will ever hear

I can’t help but think what the hell is it that I’m even doing here

Because your life is in the moment

What is needed, most important

You put yourself to one side and provide

Do what needs to be done

Mine is a world of my own making

Words I’ve swallowed, time I’m taking

You don’t judge or ever question what it is I do it for

But I watch you and I know I could do so much more

I hope I can help in some way

I hope I can help in some way

I hope I can help in some small way

I hope I can help in some way

I hope I can help in some way

I hope I can help in some small way