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Adrift

from Gallery EP by Patrick Keese

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lyrics

That tree in the yard
With the neighbors' old cars
Was the first of the bastions of youth
That you put to your chains, with its quiet old age
As I watched from the porch with no shoes

I guess you'd forgotten that note
That I tried as I wrote
To give life to the countless green hours
That I spent with my dad in its branches, just glad
For the freckles of light on his brow

And that house down the street
With chipped paint at its feet
We'd run bare with soap in our eyes
Down the tilted dark halls, with the cigarette walls
And a blanket of arms when we cried

It's not the hill that makes you a king
And it isn't the finger that makes you a ring
But where were you then in that 4 A.M. night
When the lights of the city streets caught you just right
And you still swear that you heard them sing

But you've set us adrift
And wrapped the boat like a gift
And I watched as you ate out the heart
Of a city I've loved, where you see pictures of
Some odd silvery world
When reflections unfurl
As the light makes a sheen on the bricks in the rain

They've seen someone's first kiss, and seen someone's near miss
Held the blood of a daughter and the weight of the mist
And the things I could never just put in a song
But that you'll never miss when they're gone

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from Gallery EP, released December 28, 2019

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