Your house is gone and so are you

Your husband died in '92, your family's spread out

You were the glue, your things divided

Center is falling through, you taught me well

I said, "Goodbye, Miriam"



Well, that blue coat and gray wool pants

Those things you bought, I never gave a chance

That I'd outfit swore, would open up

Every single door, you taught me well

I said, "Goodbye, Miriam"



A cross was burned in 23, a black barber's yard

Down your street but you should be afraid

Your father said, "That cross was burned for you and me"

Stays in my head, you taught me well

I said, "Goodbye, Miriam"



Well, on your bed in '93, I held your hand

You looked at me, you couldn't speak

All that morphine, your last days

Spent in dreams, you said a lie

I said, "Goodbye"