Lyrics

The lyrics:
To answer the phone is good when you're on it. I call you my name and we laugh at the sound of it. You ask me a question from the depth of your life, I'm stumped but pretend that I know. Still you keep asking me ten years or longer, somehow you're asking me ten years or longer.
I can live in this city with the noise and the rumble. Try to be a friend and neighbor to those that I see. I can open my heart to the madness of this place but you see it in the ways I can't know. Next to you, I'm a visitor ten years or longer. Oh, you humble me, mentor me, ten years or longer.
Your skin is chocolate brown, my skin is white. But pierce them both and they will bleed alike. Won't you teach me what it's like, what it's like to be you.
Torn between grandkids and how to mother your daughters. Yet making your way to find work on you own. While you juggle these tensions as much as you breathe, your courage runs endlessly deep. You're my own private hero now ten years or longer. Oh, you humble me, mentor me, ten years or longer, ten years or longer, ten years or longer.