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c. Summer 2011. Started as a breakup song, and became something else, including an exercise in using the same ending vowel for every line

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I don't want to be your friend.
I don't want to start another thing with an end.
I don't want to talk it out again.
I don't have any more time to lend.

Someday I'll wake up and this will have never happened.
Someday I'll wake up and we'll have always been friends.
Soon I'll wake up and get that letter you sent,
saying you're doing all right in someplace I've never been.

My heart and I broke up and I haven't seen her since.
She said, "I can't keep hanging around with you when you keep letting folks call the best parts of me sins!"
And I said, "I know, I know, I just don't seem to have enough time. I don't want life to stop, I just want to press the pause button."
And she said, "Darling, darling, darling... now I guess you'll have enough time on your hands."

Someday I'll wake up and she'll be back in my chest again.
Someday I'll wake up and I'll be my own best friend.
Until then… until then I've got my own garden to tend.
Which I never seem to get around to 'cause I keep working on this fence.

Sweetheart? Where have you gone to?
Sweetheart? I've been looking for you, sweetheart...
I'm ready when you are...

I will count to ten. And when I open my eyes, you'll be back again,
with no surprises, and no pretending.
I'm ready for my happy ending.

I'm willing to be your friend.
I'm willing to try without mending.
I'm willing to walk with you again.
I'm unlocking the door to let myself in.

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from Goodnights for Meadow, released April 15, 2020
elizaBeth Simpson, guitar and vocals.

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elizaBeth Simpson Urbana, Illinois

elizaBeth has been a vocalist and guitarist since 1992. She is a cultural worker who specializes in collaborative projects with people who don't think they are creative, and is the founder of the We Wanna Woke Community Justice Street Choir.

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