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Something To Remember Me By

from No Time To Be Tender by Ian Fitzgerald

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The fences that you mended that you meant to keep me out with are now pens that you are holding me in
I was just empty, when your shoulder bent you asked as if I should have seen it coming, "Where have we been?"
The lines I walk are dead but they've been propped up 'til I cross them; I've been lost on just so many different paths
You sent word from Leroy Street that your best friend was face-down and kicking at the hardwood from your hip bath
Someone dry this pavement while my name is still here
The street feels like it's shifting; I don't want to disappear
I can't tell you, honey, where I'll be in a year
Here's something to remember me by

Her lidless eyes the sun to blind stared down the dusk approaching but the darkest hour succeeds the brightest day
The starry night is muted by the city's screaming streetlights while the wheat fields wave a million miles away
Though I never danced, my footprints span the sands like evidence; heavy hangs the moonlight bearing down
Her name engraved on my hand's palms that reached out to embrace her 'til I heard the voices singing from the ground
Someone dry this pavement while my name is still here
The street feels like it's shifting; I don't want to disappear
I can't tell you, honey, where I'll be in a year
Here's something to remember me by

While the carousel keeps spinning through its brass-ring-circled searchlight, the stowaways in gilded carriage ride
I've seen too many rivers to believe this one won't flood
This mountain is too muddy not to slide

The scars that you left on my chest when you lifted your head from its rest haven't faded
Your bottle was broken it cut fog and floated; the message was wet but it made it
Someone dry this pavement while my name is still here
The street feels like it's shifting; I don't want to disappear
I can't tell you, honey, where I'll be in a year
Here's something to remember me by
Here's something to remember me by
here's something to remember me
Who'd want to remember me?
Here's something to remember me by

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from No Time To Be Tender, released February 26, 2013

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Ian Fitzgerald Providence, Rhode Island

Though perhaps technically a singer-songwriter, Ian Fitzgerald prefers the term 'folk singer,' as it more accurately describes the tradition in which his music is rooted. From early twentieth century field recordings through Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, Gillian Welch, and hundreds of artists in between, Ian has been influenced by one of the sturdiest strains of American music. ... more

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