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My legs were turning yellow, the sahde of Easter hay
cracked on a barn floor, unable to move
and I was trying to find my way by digging through the clay
to find the kind that created me and you
I said ‘baby put down that guitar, I’ll keep you warm don’t fall apart
I’ll turn this cold beach into a high noon lawn
and I’ll put on my blue dress, we’ll hit the road as travelers blessed
venture to Bellingham and beyond’
because everything you say when you look at me that way
is like a heavy rock thrown into a small pond
tonight I want to see where all the spotlights in the sky are coming from
feel your breath to make my body hum
and shouldn’t we be seeing leaves by now, seeing the leaves change back to brown
is this a trick to have a summer before fall?
cause summer goes by so fast, you’ll think to yourself as leaves go past
‘haven’t I been through this before, haven’t I been through this before’

(coming down hard)
on artificial chocolate
(coming down hard)
where to land you’ll wonder where
coming down hard
in a neverending summer baby
roll of the bones is racing through the air

and what have I been doing all this time but waiting to follow through
pack it up and go back to New York?
pouring all my energy into someone with I should not be
finding a reason to put back in the cork
and you turn me around from that direction that I’ve found
so I can’t see ir or where trust should be stored
and you’re always keeping score and making love a chore
wearing a purple heart for a forgotten war”

(coming down hard)
on artificial chocolate
(coming down hard)
where to land you’ll wonder where
coming down hard
in a neverending summer baby
roll of the bones is racing through the air

they’ll say "Diana you’re so thin when I come back home again
you don’t take care of yourself, let your family instead"
so I eat and gain the weight cause you know I always hate
to disappoint so I give in to the dread”

and I could feel the magic gone, I knew something had gone wrong
from the moment when it first appeared
you know the first time that we kissed, you said you were scared but I missed
what I saw as confidence you felt as fear
and I know that something broke inside when you were a kid and still called Josh
some bullies pushed you and some courage then got lost
and now you promise all the pearls you found with me to other girls
and me leaving now has to make up the cost
cause I can’t be around to repair everything fucked up in there
you have to be alone to figure out what’s wrong
even though you worship me, it’s safe baby to need
a lover to cover what you haven’t yet let bleed
and shouldn’t we be seeing leaves by now, seeing the leaves change back to brown
is this a trick to have a summer before fall
cause summer goes by so fast you think to yourself as leaves go past
haven’t I been though this before, haven’t I been through this before

(coming down hard)
on artificial chocolate
(coming down hard)
it’s OK not to be scared
coming down hard
in a neverending summer baby
roll of the bones is racing through the air

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from The Salted Caramel Sinner, released November 10, 2009

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