When We Could - Nathaniel Rateliff

If you call our names

We’ll come arise and ready and primed

Such a sturdy face

You can tell we’re aging by the lines

Keep on saying how

That’s sort of fine and strange, although

Even if the wind has ceased to blow

We won’t run and we won’t cry

Look how we stand forever more, when we could

Staying up and laughing all night, when we could

Keep on smiling till it’s bright, when we could

When we could

You sure called it right

You said I’d wither and not grow back

It’s not a fine way to go

I think we left there with our pride

I hate to call out hands

But pardon my way of being slow

Cover me up and let me go

And make it as thick and as dark as the night

And we could laugh forever more, when we could

Tear it up like the dogs at night, when we could

And we could fight and bury it all, when we could

When we could

When we could…