Last night remix

Chasing Time

Granby board rules Wine Haus can continue as winery GRANBY — Despite complaints from neighbors about noise and business operations of the Wine Haus, the town recently determined that the winery can continue to operate on East Street under a 1950 state law that exempts certain land uses from local zoning regulations. 


Verse 1
Down on East Street the neighbors worried,
Said the evenings ran a little too loud.
Folks asked the board to settle the question,
What's allowed and what isn't allowed.
They gathered in the old meeting chamber,
Just trying to sort through the past,
Where the lines of a small town's memory
Still guide the choices that last.

Chorus
Granby winery exempted, standing where it's always been.
Old rules written long before us still carry their quiet wind.
A place that presses its harvest, holding tight to its history.
Granby winery exempted, and the vineyard keeps running free.

Verse 2
Back in 1950 they drafted
A law meant to shelter the land,
Saying farms and orchard traditions
Could work without heavy demands.
The board read the worn-out statute,
Found the words that fit the day.
What was planted in another era
Still had a right to stay.

Chorus
Granby winery exempted, standing where it's always been.
Old rules written long before us still carry their quiet wind.
A place that presses its harvest, holding tight to its history.
Granby winery exempted, and the vineyard keeps running free.

Bridge
Some say the nights feel different now,
Others say it's part of home.
Every field has a voice that lingers
In the rows where the stories have grown.

Verse 3
So the board gave its final ruling,
Let the neighbors speak their mind.
In the end they followed the statute,
Letting heritage lead the design.
And the Wine Haus opened its shutters,
Poured a glass as the daylight fell.
A reminder that roots run deeper
Than the changes we try to quell.

Final Chorus
Granby winery exempted, standing where it's always been.
Old rules written long before us still carry their quiet wind.
A place that presses its harvest, holding tight to its history.
Granby winery exempted, and the vineyard keeps running free.

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