Medicine Cabinet

Medicine Cabinet
Medicine Cabinet

Bathroom light at one in the morning
Bottles crowded three rows deep
I keep reading every label
Like instructions could make me sleep
Family news sits in the hallway
Harder than anything I can fix
I bring articles, numbers, questions
Because helpless feels like this

Medicine Cabinet, nothing here can fix tonight
Medicine Cabinet, labels under bathroom light
I brought answers, you asked me to sit down
Medicine Cabinet, let me be here now

You take my phone from my fingers
Set it face-down by the sink
Say I know you mean to help me
But I need you here, not ten steps ahead
So I sit on the cold tile
Shoulder pressed against the tub
Finally all evening
Care feels less like solving and more like love

You don't ask for answers
You ask me to sit down

Medicine Cabinet, nothing here can fix tonight
Medicine Cabinet, labels under bathroom light
I brought answers, you asked me to sit down
Medicine Cabinet, let me be here now

I confused love with treatment
Because action kept fear away
I brought answers, you asked me to sit down
That overfilled cabinet made it plain

Medicine Cabinet, close the little door
Medicine Cabinet, I'm not searching anymore
I brought answers, you asked me to sit down
Medicine Cabinet, I'm here now

Medicine Cabinet