in the hours before you Paroles

but it wasn't safe in/saving? me.

don't tell yourself
it's something you can't help.
don't tell yourself
it's something you can't help.

i rode the plane back to napa state
and my mother cried
and blew smoke in my eyes.
we sat and talked
on chairs in the garage.
she told me, "son,
you'll be dead when this is done
if you tell yourself it's something you can't help,
tell yourself it's something you can't help."

my heart beat was stalling
circling the hospital that night,
too afraid to stop walking, don't tell yourself it's something you can't help.
don't tell yourself it's something you can't help.