Big baggy t-shirts And red shredded paper On the VHS that our father kept Rainbow of bottles With names of a stranger On the tear-stained shelf where our mother wept And you said it'd be different And you said it'd be different And you said it'd be different Always said it'd be different Come get out of the water Don't go any deeper Come get out, pick up the phone Come get out of the water You're a terrible swimmer Come get out, just come back home Just come back home Tattered old backpack And two-dollar glasses In the motel where they found you downtown I pounded my fists on The edge of my mattress And I prayed that it's not the day that you drown And you tried to be different And you tried to be different How you tried to be different But now everything's different Come get out of the water Don't go any deeper Come get out, pick up the phone Come get out, my brother You're a terrible swimmer Come get out, just come back home Just come back home Late night in September Made a call to our mother That neither of us will forget Can you hear me, in the water Come back now, my brother Come get out, I'm not done with you yet Come get out Come get out Come get out Come get out Come get out Come get out Come get out Come get out Come get out Come get out Don't leave me with nothing But red shredded paper On the VHS that our father kept Come on home Come on home