In Drummer Heaven

The Song

Dear Mom and Dad, hope you're doin' fine
You guys are on my mind
I know it's been seven long years
Should've called but could find the words

LA is gorgeous, kicks the shit out of our old town
I came out here to light the world on fire but I got burnt
I'm not apologizing for leaving
Just thought you outta know

Picked myself back up and I'm ready to say

You can't have roots and wings
You can't learn to fly before you learn to fall
Though I left it in my rear view
My roots are who I am

I met some broads at the terminal,
wanted the same thing as me
We said it was fate,
now we're the Night of Broken Glass

Church fell through the cracks
Apology to the Pastor when I get back
Got a GED
Y'all outta be proud of me

I just called to say

You can't have roots and wings
You can't learn to fly before you learn to fall
Though I left it in my rear view
My roots are who I am

You can't have roots and wings
You can't learn to fly before you learn to fall
Though I left it in my rear view
My roots are who I am

Seven long years and I'm ready to say
I'm be home for dinner
I got Grace

I try to get the piano right for this song when I hear someone walk down the stairs.

"Darcy its three o'clock in the goddamn morning!" Rose says. "What the hell are you doing?

"Here." I say and hand her my notebook.

I got this idea after talking to Tommy a couple nights ago. I've never been able to write lyrics but after talking about my past to someone out loud, this just flowed out of me! Now if I can just get the goddamn music right I'd be off to the goddamn races!

"Darcy did you right this?" Rose asks.

"Yeah, been working on it the past couple of days. I just finished it about twenty minutes ago." I admit as I play keys.

"What's it called?" She wonders.

"Roots." I say while looking at the piano

"I've gotta get Jewl and Jade." Rose  says. "This is really fucking good!"

She runs upstairs to get the guitarist and the bassist, I can hear them grumble and argue. Then they all walk back downstairs to the basement where we keep our instruments. Jewl and Jade look half asleep when Rose shoves the note book in their face. I half smile and go back to trying to figure out how the piano is going to sound.

"Rose, this is real good." Jewl says. "But was it worth waking us up for?"

"Not me this time, dude. Darcy wrote this." The singer says.

"Darcy? I didn't think you could write." Jade says.

"Yeah me too, funny how things work out." I say with a laugh.

"I think it's little drummer boy's doing." Rose admits and I look back at her. "Darcy we're not stupid you know. You come back at weird hours, you flirt back and forth at work. You and Tommy are completely together!"

In all honesty I don't know what Tommy and I are. Yes we do hook up and yes we do flirt back and forth but we don't do dates or even really hang out. I mean that night at the park could count as a date. But I really don't know.

We all screw about with the song for a while. Playing around with different sound but we all decide we're sleep deprived and that's why we can't come up with anything. We all part to go to sleep with the hopes of figuring it out in the morning.