i saw you start across the road, you had somewhere to go. the ache you feel inside your bones... you're just getting old and feeling the cold. you were on your way to meet for tea or coffee and wearing your favorite sweater. you sit down and say "hello, my friend. how ya' been?" and the talk turns to the weather and the cold. you woke up earlier that day and got dressed in the same way. walking out the front way past the mailman and he said, "how about this weather?". i saw you walk across the road, you had somewhere to go on a grey day in december. the ache you feel in your bones? you're just getting old and feeling the weather and the cold. you were on your way to store for the grandchild you adore and thinking about what you might get her but the icing on the road made it hard for the cars to slow... so now you're severed from all you've ever known. you woke up earlier that day and got dressed in the same way you have for eighty-seven years. you were walking out the front way past the mailman and he said, "how about this weather?" i saw you start across the road with somewhere to go but you'd never get there. and if all your lovely thoughts were tangled up in knots about the weather... we'll never know.
credits
from 2013 digital ep,
released November 1, 2013
written, performed and captured by AVL
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