Appears on: Soup

Recorded at: Kingsway Studios, New Orleans, Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans

Produced by: Andy Wallace and Blind Melon

Brad: bass
Christopher: guitar
Glen: drums
Rogers: guitar
Shannon: vocals

Live Performances: played often on the Soup tour

Notes:
This song is about Shannon's grandmother, Vernie, who lives in Lafayette, Indiana.  Shannon described her as "a beautiful simple woman who loves God, her family, and her garden."   "She's just very simple and doesn't take a lot of things for granted.  That sums up her beauty. She always says, 'I love you'  when you depart from her presence, because she always feels like that's the last time you could ever see each other."

She comes to his vigil on his birthday annually.

Lyrics:
Is it the way you're speakin'
Is it because I'm peakin'
Twistin' your face, thumb in hand, but you
Gotta have your own space to play in
A collection of glass chickens
Oh Vernie,what a garden you have
Maybe its the snuff under your lip
Or maybe caramel cake covered Christmas
Oh a flower you are to my land, but I
No I cannot deny the beauty
If I had a heart I would want it to be like Vernie's
Oh what a heart that she has
Roaming through the cupboard jar of
pickles never opened since 1983
Peanuts in a pile and Elvis down the aisle Singing gallantly
I wish I could be
A little more like Vernie
Oh, I wanna be
I wanna be a little more like Vernie