What Baking Can Do

Make it work;

make it easy.

Make it clever;

craft it into pieces.

Make it sweet;

crimp the edges.

Or make it sour and serve with lemon wedges.

Even doubt can be delicious,

and it washes off of all the dirty dishes.

When it's (Cb)done,

I can smile;

it's on someone else's plate for a while.

(Ebm)I'll place it on display;

and then I'll slice and

serve my (Db5)worries away.

(F)I can fix this;

I (Am)can (Am7)twist it into (Dm)sugar,

buttercovered pieces.

(Db)Never mind what's underneath it.

I have done it before;

(Am)I'll (Am7)bake me a door (C)to (C#dim7)help me get (Dm)through.

(C)I (Gdim7)learned that from (Bb)you.

Mama, it's (Bbm)amazing what baking can (Gb5)do.

(Gb5)Make it up,

and surprise them.

Tell them all my secrets, but disguise them,

so they dance on the tongues of the very people that they're secrets from.

Make it (Ebm7)soon;

make it better.

Though, better never lasts (Ab7)forever.

I'll make it small, so (Db7)it fits

even this,

even now, even as the (Db)walls (Gb5)come (Db7)(Gb)tumbling (Cbsus2)down,

even as I (Db)can't (Gb5)stop (Db7)remembering (Cbsus2)how

ev'ry door we ever (Db)made,

(Gb5)we (Db7)never once (Gb)walked out...

(Abm)Something I never got the chance to ask her about.

(Ebm7)So with flour (Ab7)on my hands,

I'll show them all how goddamn (Db5)happy I am.

(Dm)Sugar, butter, flour, don't let me (G7)down!