Frankie Renae

I'm wide awake and so alive
Ringing like a bell
Tell me this is paradise
And not someplace I fell
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It seems like he's got nothing
too much going on in his life
right now.
He sleeps on the porch swing,
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blaring soft spoken acoustic
one bit of uncalled honesty after another
and I imagine you
in all the overused words I use
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Sometimes we just need the people we love to hold us
Maybe that's what this is
I know it's sure different than his
Feelings in me
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Past the tar lines, green signs, and truer trees
Working toward you in 85 east breeze
I counted miles down, the last 56
To the 40-some hours I'll never forget
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You feel in silence
You know that second
Where just for a moment
Everything is alright
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I'd like you to hold me
like the ground holds our feet
when I'm not with you
when I'm with you
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Just your wife
It wasn't supposed to go this way
Close my eyes
But this won't go away
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Chorus:
You are 13 of 14 angels
got all them angles carried up
if the last one is me
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there's a million angels that live in this town
so how did I find you; my feet can't touch the ground
I'm swimmin in your love
like all your emotions that fall from above
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somewhere over the expanse of years
lies a time I just can't seem to fear
so many hopes, so many dreams
so many promises, so few tears at the seams
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I dropped her heart on the sidewalk
walked around the block to pick it up
but it was gone
and when I looked again
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like missing him
or the stars or gravel
but today
I cried for someone
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He lays on the phone, okay
with the silence
walks next to me, okay
with conversation's absence
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And yet there you stand
180 days later
200 thoughts greater
So much more than friends
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i called you the sea, we have tried and failed that many times
but sometimes in my prayers, guilt and scared, this love makes sense and i can't stop
the thinking and the thinking lines:
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I saw you running twice that day
After you told me you died the first time
Fell apart when he said maybe you were
going over again
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lightning shines
when the trees of karma crack
and there are roots
I'm sure you watch the stars
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We became American

You came here in your refuge
You sat Indian style
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Maybe we were laying on the couch
But I swear we were dancing
In the middle of the livingroom
In your beautiful clothing
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