[VERSE 1 - HUSHED, CLOSE-MIC'D] I wore the only black I owned Ironed it twice on the kitchen table Stood in front of the mirror Practiced not falling apart But the collar wouldn't sit right And the tie kept choking me And the shoes I chose were the ones He always said were ugly [VERSE 2] The church was smaller than I remembered The flowers smelled like apology His mother sat in the front row Holding a photograph against her chest Like if she pressed it hard enough He might crawl back out of it And I stood in the back Because I didn't trust my legs To carry me past the casket [PRE-CHORUS] He wasn't killed by the plant He was killed by the system around it He was killed by the street That filled the gap the law created He was killed by a world That made the safe thing dangerous And the dangerous thing The only option left [CHORUS] Mary Jane showed up to the funeral She didn't bring flowers She didn't bring a speech She just sat in the back pew With the lights already low And she stayed She stayed until they turned the lights off She stayed until they locked the doors Mary Jane showed up to the funeral Because that's what she does She shows up When nobody else knows what to say [VERSE 3] His daughter asked me where her daddy went I said he went somewhere the law can't reach She asked me if the flowers were for him I said yes but they should have been for when He was alive When he was breathing When he was here Not for a box Not for a hole Not for a stone with dates And a dash between them That's supposed to mean a life [VERSE 4] I found his pipe in my jacket pocket The one he left at my place last month I didn't smoke it I just held it Felt the warmth of a thing he held And I wondered if the last breath he took Was warm Or cold Or scared Or peaceful And I'll never know And that's the part That won't stop hurting [CHORUS] Mary Jane showed up to the funeral She sat next to me and didn't speak She didn't offer comfort She didn't offer peace She just occupied the empty seat Where the world forgot to be Mary Jane showed up to the funeral Because that's what she does She shows up When the rest of the world Moves on to the next headline [BRIDGE] They'll say he was a statistic They'll say he made his choice They'll file him in a folder Under someone else's voice But he was my friend He was someone's son He was a father He was a man who liked bad movies And good weed And the sound of rain on a tin roof And now he's a number In a paper trail That nobody will read [FINAL CHORUS] Mary Jane didn't come to the funeral To save anyone She came because someone had to be there When the flowers died And the family went home And the dirt was still fresh Someone had to sit in the silence And not run away from it That's all she ever did That's all she ever does She sits in the silence And stays (And stays...And stays....And stays) [OUTRO] The flowers are still there On the grave Dying slowly Like everything else That was beautiful And temporary And alive
