Two Pennies
A shadow landed on me this morning
Looked like my old friend’s face
Landed on me without a warning
And it drained all the color from the place
And as that muddy gray gloominess expanded
My only focus was the dust and the noise
‘Cause in those empty eye sockets
There was just two polished copper coins
Two pennies for the ferryman, a toll for the road
That’s all you get to take in the end
Two pennies for the ferryman, a price soul
No matter what shape it’s in
You can live your life on trade, honey
You can beg, you can borrow, and you can lend
But in the end we all pay two pennies to the ferryman
Yeah, I ran out the house that evening
Feeling like I was caught in the machine
You don’t do what you love for the money, man
But don’t do nothing you’re good at for free
Underneath it all there just ain’t nothing
As if nothing in the end was the point
Man, that’s a lonely wage.
Just two polished copper coins
Man, I’ve been wresting that shadow all my life long
Wondering what he’s fighting me for
You don’t feel your heart when it closes
There’s just places you don’t go to no more
But I’m throwing open this old basement
Open up all the windows and the doors
And I’m going outside with my fist full of copper coins
Two pennies for the ferryman, a toll for the road
That’s all you get to take in the end
Two pennies for the ferryman, a price soul
No matter what shape it’s in
You can live your life on trade, honey
You can beg, you can borrow, and you can lend
But in the end we all pay two pennies to that ferryman