Grandma's Song - The Herd

I was all I could do to stay calm

I had woken up, before the call had come

After partying all of the night before

I woke suddenly, at 5am

Didn’t yawn I sat up and took the call

The voice held firm at the other end

Gently speaking of the things that were happening

And it set my mind racing, as I steadied with my arm

It was all I could do, to stay calm

I could not recall the number for the place

Nothing was open but, I tried calling just the same

All of my logical thinking, was scrambled

Over and over, just trying to get a handle

I remember she was apathetic

Plain as day asked, which account she could debit

I read her the credit card, and I welled up

It was all I could do to stay calm

I left as the sun rose by the beachside

Joggers looked at me, as they ran by

I tried to hurry my tears

And wiped them away, but they reappeared

I heard there was a bushfire back as home

And the freeway to get there was closed

I clenched my boarding pass, tightly in my palm

It was all I could do to stay calm

I found a backroad but it was closed

So we turned round and drove back, and tried to joke

Then the freeway opened up, we were on our way

Shortly before the call came

We had no words to make it okay

We just hurried back to the bedside where she lay

Goodbye I whispered, as I held her arm

It was all I could do, to stay calm

And I wondered what kind of song I would play

On the morning of, a day like today

Gently lift me up, show me the beauty

Well on the day my cousin chose a Tina Turner tune

A celebratory belter that strangely works

And I let all the calmness out, and the tears flowed freely

It was a nondescript Central Coast Church

Where I released I’d held in the hurt

And I let all the calmness out, and the tears flowed freely