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Rope and Knot

from Look What's Left by Wampeters

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it's been a while, I know
but I've been making my way, somewhere
staring at the broken lines, always
trying to get somewhere
and you look the same, you know
as you did the last time you showed
like your Little League photograph, always
hanging in one place

I brought along your old ball mitt, see
the Eddie Brinkman special with the rawhide web
it was sitting in a box in my parents' garage
they were going to throw it out
they had dusty old boxes, hundreds of things
that I'd sort of forgotten, you know, like distant dreams
and when I opened them up my legs shook
I remembered being somebody else

and I remembered the dream you had
when you thought you heard God's voice
saying 'pack it up, give it up
there just isn't any point'
and I remember you saying
that you listened to that
that you wrote your own eulogy
and that was that

like your Little League photograph, always
hanging in one place
hanging on a rope and a knot

it's been a while, I know
but there was nothing I could do
I guess you think that I'm wasting my time
doing the things I do
you know I saw a good game on TV the other night
Eddie Brinkman's record got broken and I cried
but I was alone in the dark and the quiet
and I didn't have to explain

it's been a while, I know
but there was nothing I could do
it's been awhile, I know
but I still do think of you

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from Look What's Left, released June 1, 1994
©1994, 2021 Wampus Multimedia. Words and music by Mark Doyon (ASCAP/WMM Songs).

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