STEADY AS A LANTERN
Coffee can candles and the floorboards creak
Morning comes soft through a hole in the sheet
Lemon on the tongue and salt on the rim
We start every day on a bunker bound whim
Steady as a lantern swingin' low
Burnin' slow where the root herbs grow
Ain't much flash but it's got that will
To hold on quiet and hold on still
We ain't cured but we've come to feel
That sometimes slow is how we heal
Cinnamon curls in the stovetop steam
Memory wrapped in a magnesium dream
Mulberry tea in a borrowed jar
We trade old tales under bunker stars
Steady as a lantern swingin' low
Bittersweet where the saffron glows
Ain't no fix but it fits just right
To carry the calm through a rationed night
We ain't cured but we've come to feel
That sometimes soft is what turns real
They talk of cures and sugar pills
Of numbers dropped and climbing hills
But down here we move to time we make
A stir a sip for balance' sake
Steady as a lantern swingin' low
In the hush where the moonflowers grow
Not a cure but a quiet light
That gets us through another night
We hold fast and we always will
Cause sometimes slow is how we heal
Just lemon salt and a little old steel
Turns out sometimes slow is how we heal