SOAP and water

scrub the salt from my stinging skin slip me loose of this wedding band
Soap and water hang my heart on the line scour it down in a wind of sand bleach it clean to a vinegar shine
Daddy's a dark riddle
Mama's a headful of bees you are my little kite carried away in the wayward breeze
Soap and water wash the year from my life straighten all that we trampled and tore heal the cut we call husband and wife
Daddy's a dark riddle
Mama's a handful of thorns you are my little kite caught up again in the household storms
Daddy's a dark riddle
Mama's a headful of bees you are my little kite carried away in the wayward breeze