Pink Moon for John Prine Songtext
von Humbird

Patience is a spell to cast
Mine never seems to last
Longer than a midwest sunset
Wrapping around this city

I′m walking through a purple dusk
Tryna clear the cobwebs and the dust
Of my own mind, god I must have
Slipped into a slow rust

But the pink moon
Rising to the east
Today I was not as kind as I
Set out to be
The pink moon
Bats swing down for bugs to eat
I'm so busy doing nothing
Watching days melt into weeks


My friend is on the other line
She called to talk, instead we cry
The pandemic hit and her father died
Says the greatest gift she got was time
It′s so hard to breathe with a tight chest
While gratitude makes dinner taste the best
I'm making new meals out of leftover food
So I can sit at the table and stare at you

The pink moon
There beneath the trees
Now you're running like a mad man
To where the land and blue sky meet
That pink moon
It′s splitting like a melon
It′s sticky on my lips
Like secrets ripe for telling

Tomorrow I will try again
To not break in two but simply bend
With the wind and the rain and the dancing stars
Distant suns lighting up the dark
I suppose that's all anyone can do
And if you promise me, I′ll promise you
To revel in the beauty and howl like a fool
Raise my cup to the big pink moon
For you