Silver Spoons and Paper Receipts

Silver Spoons and Paper Receipts

Box of old silver, knuckles tight
Wedding band sold just to make it through the night
Pawnshop lights flicker on the ache in my hand
Selling off history just to meet their demand.
Silver spoons and paper receipts
Trading time for a meal and some heat
All that’s left of home gets sold cheap

Silver spoons and paper receipts.
Counter cold, clerk eyes don’t meet mine
Family china boxed up with the old ties that still bind
Dad’s old watch and mom’s bent fork
Turned to cash for rent, turned memory into work.

Silver spoons and paper receipts
Trading time for a meal and some heat
All that’s left of home gets sold cheap
Silver spoons and paper receipts.
Every heirloom gone, every piece of us
Counting losses in the dark, turning history to dust.

Silver spoons and paper receipts
Trading time for a meal and some heat
All that’s left of home gets sold cheap
Silver spoons and paper receipts.