Breathe

Don't

can you hear me?
I'm climbing over mountaintops calling out your name
holy water
washing over your face, you'll never be the same
know me, hold me
listen to the bird song that's singing for you

and if I don't know
where to go from here
and if I can't slow down
to meet you, dear
know that your love was like the pines
surrounded me, kept me safe inside
guarded me, helped to decide
which way to run

you're so close, but so gone

So Close/So Gone - 10:20:16

lovers walking outside
west wind blowing and bids us goodbye
summer ends, a turn of the page
hot wot running cold
why would I stay for you?

"I'll be seeing you"
that's what you said
I left you, you let me, the flowers all dead
love is a fickle thing, big empty beds
you were my everything
my heart and my head was you

help me I'm falling, I'm falling in deep
you were my sinking ship, but I tried to flee
help me, I'm drowning, I'm looking for air
you were my life boat
but now I'm out there, just me

It Was You

Performed December 2016 at Bowdoin College, "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" by Charles Mingus and Joni Mitchell

Anne Gregory