Reckless Child - Joe Henry

Won’t you come and lay with we let your easy laugh undo

what has risen up to leave

the hole that I have fallen through.

Take the pieces in your hand

and let the shadows cover you,

tell it so I’ll understand

I’ll never ask you if it’s true.

I started where the river bends

and cuts the hills clean in two,

I looked across where all the men

who dream of falling so often do.

When faith grows cold und leaves you to raise

the reckless child that is your fear

maybe then I can repay

the time you’ve kept beside me here.

You’ll go your way, as angels do one day I’ll raise up from my bed,

and if I never hear another word from you

I’ll remember that too as something you once said.

Until that day come stay with me let the shadows cover you

tell it so I’ll understand

I’ll never ask you if it’s true

— I've never much cared what was true.