"I Didn't Know" lyrics

I grew up in a brick house on 15th behind the bakery
Where my dad worked his bones into knots
My mom was a watcher, my mom was a listener
My mom was afraid to leave the house
I used to walk the city, winter in Cincinnati
Make you cry razors from the cold
I hear mom and dad fighting, the busted oven and then they're laughing
And she's chasing him down the hallway with a towel

I didn't know that
They didn't know
What they were doing

I didn't know that
They didn't know
What they were doing

I woke to the sound of sadness and tiptoed out the bedroom
To find dad crying at the window by the phone
In the morning I had not forgotten and the whole house felt different
I hugged my dad and left for school older and alone
Mom said his sister was a drinker and they tried everything to help here
But sometimes a story has already been told
And I laid in bed wondering what was already written
And who gets to decide where I go?
And I laid in bed wondering what was already written
And who gets to decide where I go?

I didn't know
That they didn't know
What they were doing

I didn't know
That they didn't know
What they were doing