Lily Josephine
from Jonathan, CA by Long Conversations
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumComes wrapped in an edition of the Jonathan Weekly from April 1st 1942
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lyrics
Lily Josephine, the queen of Spring
and always hand in hand
with her bonnie king
and how his how his father watched as
you would make his porch your own
Lily Josephine the sky in flames
he let you run a marathon
your shirt a chain as it wrapped
itself ‘round your legs and
you collapsed in morning dew
and home is cold-eyed stares
and “where you been?”
and vow to never tell
but keep running
Lily Josephine our Summer’s come
let’s push back all our memories
‘nto evenin suns and let’s not
publish diaries or
work on eulogies just yet
and home is now just three stones
and four names
where rows
of old men sigh and leave
and I watch you cry on a westbound train
home
don’t know if you know just what I know
that the undertaker’s so slow
it might just take a while to get home
it might just take a while to die.
and always hand in hand
with her bonnie king
and how his how his father watched as
you would make his porch your own
Lily Josephine the sky in flames
he let you run a marathon
your shirt a chain as it wrapped
itself ‘round your legs and
you collapsed in morning dew
and home is cold-eyed stares
and “where you been?”
and vow to never tell
but keep running
Lily Josephine our Summer’s come
let’s push back all our memories
‘nto evenin suns and let’s not
publish diaries or
work on eulogies just yet
and home is now just three stones
and four names
where rows
of old men sigh and leave
and I watch you cry on a westbound train
home
don’t know if you know just what I know
that the undertaker’s so slow
it might just take a while to get home
it might just take a while to die.
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from Jonathan, CA,
released October 24, 2013
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Oct 2013 -
Nov 2011 -
Jan 2009 -
Oct 2007
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