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Imagine the word June being written in cursive and then you have the name of this song.

I wrote this song in a car with my best friend Arielle. She was writing a story and I was writing this song in the parking lot of a Shop Rite. She's the one that believed in me the most that I could do this kind of song and I thank her for it!

June is really special to me because it was the first time I stepped out of my comfort zone into a very harmonically cool place while writing, and as my songs have progressed I go back into that place more and more. I first wrote it as something I myself didn't believe I could write. It's so different from anything I've ever written and that's why I'm completely and utterly in love with it.

I hope you love this track as much as I love listening to it.

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Sometime in the afternoon.
Early in the month of June.
A darkened sky.
Looming 'cross a mortal boon.
With the flowers in full bloom.
Jumping junipers join the jostling June Bugs on the fly.

Eighteen minutes after four.
I spent looking at the floor.
Praying to be.
Anywhere from here to see
The end of you the end of me
The Devil's got his due
And his dew got onto me and I said:

"Take me away, June.
I'm coming home soon.
All will quiet down for me
When they take my life from me.
Take me away, June."

As they strapped me to the chair
Lightning bugs danced through the air
Waiting to see
The one sacrificed to the moor:
There and then forever more
Swimming through an ocean of discarded hopes and dreams
And I said:

"Take me away, June.
I'm coming home soon.
All will quiet down for me
When they take my life from me.
Take me away, June."

All was black then I saw the man.
Dressed up with a cane in hand.
He smiled at me:
"Hello there dear friend of mine.
I sure hope you've got the time.
To suffer here forever with the hope of nothing kind."
And I screamed:

"Take me away, June!
I'm coming home soon!
All will quiet down for me
When they take my life from me!
Take me away, June!
Take me away..."

©Travis Love Benson 2011-2015

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from For the Months, released April 1, 2015
To Arielle.

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TLB // TheyLoveThem Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hey! I changed my name and am releasing as TheyLoveThem now!

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