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Tire Swing (for Joanna)

from The Youngest Sister by Sam Russell & the Harborrats

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well it might be light left over from a TV show
a time traveler changes bodies in a bright green glow
what did you want to be after you grew up
before you gave up on taking a sip from offered cup

she says I want to go back to camp and fall in love
and I’m looking over at her and seeing she’s had enough
but one of these days I’ll say something to really make her mad
and lose the summer camp we never had

on the Viaduct between the Puget Sound and the downtown
on left the water glistens, on right a skyline’s found
a mixtape on cassette deck that you made back as a kid
that she pulled out when she came home out of shoebox you kept hid

I know and realize that it’s wrong to want to be
with someone just to be a part of the family
but I wanted you as a sister, you were one that started fad
of speaking of the summer camp we never had

put the seed into the soil and watch the tree grow tall
in the backyard that will fill with the brightest leaves to fall
then tie a tire to swing ‘round strongest branch you can find
with a rope tied with a knot that won’t ever come untied
it won’t ever come untied

the songs played on The Yacht Club’s kitchen radio
where I washed dishes and made her up all those years ago
I hate sometimes too how reluctant she can be
to accept the effect of all of her beauty

how she finds the truth in laughter, purges fear of being hurt
even back there in the garden where I thought I had to blur
all of what can make her worried into what can make her glad
by singing of the summer camp we never had

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from The Youngest Sister, track released November 11, 2007

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