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Winter 2018/2019 - Lost, Depressed, Hope

This song is about facing the things that you didn't want to face. Once you come to terms with those things, they no longer have power over you.

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My summer home is filled with movie posters.
Whiffs of things we used to share.
My summer home is filled with lots of boxes of clothes and wigs I used to wear.
My summer home opens out on a lake where we used to swim, now it's just frozen air.
Fitting itself in the corners and the floorboards and cupboards of teapots we hand-painted with care.

My phone starts to ring as I wander the halls.
I listen robotically to my voice on the end of the call.

I say:
"They're gone now" (They're gone now).
"They're gone now" (They're gone now).
"Come home. Put your key in the lock."
"They're gone now" (They're gone now).
"And you know they're gone now" (They're gone now).
"Come home. Put your key in the lock."
"I will be waiting right here."
"I will be waiting right here."

I step outside. Breathe in crisp winter deeply.
My soul anguished with the thought of you leaving.
I pack up my car. Take one last look around.
And when I blink? It's all gone! It is just fertile ground.
I imagine a garden planted after the last frost.
The flowers would bloom and twist toward the warm sun.
For now? There's nothing but the lake, and the sweet winter snow.
I bless the land with a kiss, and then turn around to go.

My car hits the pavement with that old familiar hum.
I turn the radio on and I hear the chorus has begun.

They sing:
"They're gone now" (They're gone now).
"They're gone now" (They're gone now).
"Come home. Put your key in the lock."
"They're gone now" (They're gone now).
"And you know they're gone now" (They're gone now).
"Come home. Put your key in the lock."
"I will be waiting right here."
"I will be waiting right here."

credits

from Houses to Hollyhock, released December 1, 2021
To sweet winter: For all of it's bitter truths. For never being able to hide things. For hard ground. This is for the end of all things, and the beginning of all things new.

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