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Chapter 17: Westward Expansion (Demo)

from Winter Sketchbook by Paul Riley

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lyrics

There's a tree that we planted
outside of our grade school playground.
It's the only thing alive
from that place now that it's closed down.
In my eighth grade yearbook you signed,
"We should start a band."
Playing in your basement, we thought
this arrangement would last.

When your high school locker became home,
did it feel good to hear it, to see it slam closed?

You wanted to see what the world had to offer so you walked away from me just as fast you as you could.
And when you pretend that the people you left are insignificant, remember that you still remember us.

Four years of school to the stage
to the car to Sacramento.
You haven't come home in five years,
but I'm under this tree still wondering

when you packed up that day
did you keep it? Or did you throw it away?

You wanted to see what the world had to offer so you walked away from me just as fast you as you could.
And when you pretend that the people you left are insignificant, remember that you still remember us.
And you can put the Grand Canyon between us, the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River too,
but I was there when you heard of those things in a textbook and I ain't a book, you can't close my pages yet.

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from Winter Sketchbook, released June 21, 2012
Words by Paul Riley and Stacy Connolly, music by Paul Riley

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