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Big Summer
04:28
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swat the little bug
cleaning its wings on the lip of my mug
i wait for you to wake
we're late, it's okay
thoughts on open road
so clear yet untold
i feel like i could fly
passing by big blue sky
i must not be afraid!
i must not!
you leave to take a walk
i'm sitting by the window, watching our neighbors talk
she crawls into his lap
when were we like that?
i must not be afraid!
i must not!
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Feeling Like a Teenager
04:46
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i'm playing with the cat
pulling a string across the couch
i'm staring at the chair where you last sat
it's really raining hard today
it's really raining harder than it has
well who doesn't feel like a teenager in the spring?
it feels so wrong
to be going to the store
without you today
somehow i miss
your wine and your hiss
about the price of grapes
it's really raining hard today
it's really raining harder than it has
well who doesn't feel like a teenager in the spring?
and then there are the more obvious things
like your voice, and your smell, and you kiss
i dreamt that we were laughing
this was just a misunderstanding
of course you were mine
and i yours forever
it's really raining hard today
it's really raining harder than it has
well who doesn't feel like a teenager in the spring?
when i go for a walk in the park
i watch the couples walking close
sometimes they are smiling
and sometimes they are fighting
oh is love always the same?
now i'm playing with the cat
i'm pulling a string across the couch
i'm staring at the chair where you last sat
it's really raining hard today
it's really raining harder than it has
well who doesn't feel like a teenager in the spring?
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Swimming in September
03:03
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swimming in september in the ozark lakes
where the horseflies were flying right into your face
we splashed beneath the water to get out of the way
we were shrieking and laughing like two little kids
the next time i'm that happy!
the sunset turned the water pink
and i think we kissed while our bodies sank
we quit our jobs were moving to a new state
and you already had your doubts (hmmm)
and i already had my doubts (hmmm)
the next time i'm that happy!
does he love me still or does he love me not?
it's been one whole year i still miss what we lost
the next time i'm that happy!
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4. |
Making the Same Mistakes
03:04
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Howling & Crying
03:18
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was your gift what you'd hoped it would be
your birthday meant so much to me
we walked to the park eating tangerines
the snow was melting beneath our feet
we found two sleds some kids had left
we rode them down till our asses got wet
walking home we were still kind of high
i didn't care about the people who were walking on by
i could hear the whispers of the things that would soon be alive
if i could see the future then, well i'd howl and cry
in the end we called it kind
treating our love like an old dog dying
was your gift what you'd hoped it would be
your birthday meant so much to me
how i love you in my memory
now i've sung it, it can always be
in the end we called it kind
treating our love like an old dog dying
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i wait for the bus to arrive
across the street is a drive-thru line
i push my foot through the brown stained snow
there is a man i am getting to know
but when it comes down to it
i am better off alone and in silence
waking up wrapped in his arms
dreams of rivers, songs of alarm
i'm riding the bus again to a building downtown
forgetting a lunch again, meal of thought of him
but when it comes down to it
i am better off alone and in silence
flying my feathered plane across
the country of the sad and uninspired
what a love sick fool i was
nipping at his heels like a cooped up dog
what a love sick fool i was
but when it comes down to it
i am better off alone and in silence
flying my feathered plane across
the country of the sad and uninspired
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Living the Day
03:55
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the day was late
for her to wake
to fry an egg
to brew the tea
alone again
to feed the cat
to lay on your back
the house was sealed
the moment was real
and in the air
all her own
to paint the face
to be unafraid
to leave the house
to live the day
alone again
all her own
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8. |
Right Not Wrong
02:05
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before i go to bed i kiss my little head
and whisper in my ear, "goodnight i love you dear"
before i go to sleep i count my biggest dreams
they're jumping just like sheep
i used to think that i knew right from wrong
right from wrong right from wrong
the little girl i was is crying on the bus
she's thinking a new way
the little boy named Gus is pissing on the bus
he's thinking a new way
i used to think that i knew right from wrong
right from wrong right from wrong
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Here I Am!
04:34
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i think messy and that's why
i have a bed of unmade blankets in my mind
when i asked for you to crawl beneath
you said you couldn't till i made them neat
when i wake up in the middle of the night
untangling my thoughts from my dreams
i thought you visited me in my sleep
you held me close, and then you kissed my cheek
thunder rolls across the lake
raindrops hit the windows of this stranger's place
i jump at every noise the forest makes
if you were here we'd be laughing and feeling safe
you don't have to miss me if you don't
you don't have to love me if you don't
i have so little to be afraid of
traveling alone is not a curse
with my feet in the water
i resolve to think of nothing
oh my god, my god here i am!
forgive my body as she shivers on land
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Melissa K. Jones Denver, Colorado
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