[Verse 1] Sixty-two and still In the garage chair Sunday evening folding Like old paper air Hands in his lap Eyes on the wall Nothing is moving Nothing at all The lawnmower sleeps Under a gray tarp A coffee ring dries On the workbench dark [Pre-Chorus] But inside that stillness A whole world turns Old names, old cuts And the things he learned [Chorus] Default mode network (Default mode network) He sits and it works (He sits and it works) Memory sorting The hurt rearranged Future simulations His face unchanged Default mode network (Default mode network) Not doing nothing Doing the work [Verse 2] He sees his father At a fishing dock The hook in his palm The clock at a stop He sees his wife At the table edge A plate half-full And a vow half-ledge He sees the boy With a red-brown knee Running through gravel Laughing too free Nothing to show But the body still While the mind climbs stairs To a locked back hill [Pre-Chorus] There’s grief in the rafters There’s milk on the floor There’s a door he closed And another door [Chorus] Default mode network (Default mode network) He sits and it works (He sits and it works) Memory sorting The hurt rearranged Future simulations His face unchanged Default mode network (Default mode network) Not doing nothing Doing the work [Bridge] He is not empty He is crowded and small With every goodbye Still standing tall The garage hums low Like a chapel in stone He leaves the room And he leaves alone [Final Chorus] Default mode network (Default mode network) He sits and it works (He sits and it works) Memory sorting The hurt rearranged Future simulations His face unchanged Default mode network (Default mode network) Not doing nothing Doing the work (Default mode network) (Doing the work)
