Song for My Sister
from Jonathan, CA by Long Conversations
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lyrics
You know how in summer
bats circle the house
how it’s impossible to sleep
on the landing in that heat?
so I walked to the lake and
wandered around
finally turned the
key in the lock
and lay awake until the dawn
as I waited for our brothers to come home
and I thought of our father
his second wife
who on three separate occasions
married the love of her life
but I know that she loved him
on the day that he died
and I can say in earnest
I’ve never seen no-one cry
like she did when he was gone
and I waited for our brothers to come home
I stepped on the flowers
know you would have left
had you seen the face
of the man you detest, well
inside the casket
lay nobody dead
but somebody wishing
that you would come back
bats circle the house
how it’s impossible to sleep
on the landing in that heat?
so I walked to the lake and
wandered around
finally turned the
key in the lock
and lay awake until the dawn
as I waited for our brothers to come home
and I thought of our father
his second wife
who on three separate occasions
married the love of her life
but I know that she loved him
on the day that he died
and I can say in earnest
I’ve never seen no-one cry
like she did when he was gone
and I waited for our brothers to come home
I stepped on the flowers
know you would have left
had you seen the face
of the man you detest, well
inside the casket
lay nobody dead
but somebody wishing
that you would come back
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from Jonathan, CA,
released October 24, 2013
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Oct 2007
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