Tolerate it

I sit and watch you reading with yourHead lowI wake and watch you breathing with yourEyes closedI sit and watch youAnd notice everything you do or don't doYou're so much older and wiser and II wait by the door like I'm just a kidUse my best colors for your portraitLay the table with the fancy shitAnd watch you tolerate itIf it's all in my head tell me nowTell me I've got it wrong somehowI know my love should be celebratedBut you tolerate itI greet you with a battle hero's welcomeI take your indiscretions all in good funI sit and listenI polish plates until they gleam and glistenYou're so much older and wiser and II wait by the door like I'm just a kidUse my best colors for your portraitLay the table with the fancy shitAnd watch you tolerate…