Wonders For Me Lately

from Isn't It Always More by Out the Car Window

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broken open
taken aside
he left while I was catching a train
it took me two days to cry

and when it happened
I imagine it felt
alright to know the folks
he didn't quite recognize

were keeping busy
living the life he made
with his partner in crime
the choir girl in the back

Tennessee
held onto me
that day
with a trembling hand

hold heaven close
over and over again
it goes cold without
the breath it's used to breathing
blow out a flame
trying to start it again
an empty rain cloud
what did you think would happen

late son's an angel
other's a man angelic
in his manner of life
I'm proud to call him my dad

a family name
cut in half and it wanes
on pessimistic optimism
maybe it's not that bad

I don't know, it's a slow
slow reproach I find
applying to myself
it's just that I cope

reverie is doing
wonders for me
lately and I hope
it's starting to show

hold heaven close
over and over again
it goes cold without
the breath it's used to breathing
blow out a flame
trying to start it again
an empty rain cloud
what did you think would happen
(2x)

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from Isn't It Always More, released January 11, 2018

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