Corrected by: maaira [email protected]
From [email protected] Oct 15 02:14:29 1997
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 02:49:44 EST
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Dar Williams-February
FEBRUARY-Dar Williams
(I think it’s from Mortal City, but I’m not sure)
Transcribed by Kaliis Smith
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Lyrics:
I threw your keys in the water
I looked back,
they’d frozen halfway down in the ice
They froze up so quickly, the keys and their owners
even after the anger it all turns silent
Nearly every day turns solitary
So we came to February
First we forgot where we planted those bulbs last year
And then we forgot that we’d plant at all
then we forgot what plants are all together
and I blamed you for my
freezing and forgetting and
The nights were cold ang long and scary
Can we live through february?
And I think Christmas was a long red glare
shut up like a warning, we gave presents without cards
And then the snow, and then the snow came,
we were always out shoveling
and we’d drop to sleep exhausted
and we’d wake up and it’s snowing.
And February was so long
that it lasted into March
and found us walking a path alone together
You stopped and pointed and you said that’s a crocus
and I said, What’s a crocus?
and you said it’s a flower
I tried to remember, but I said What’s a flower?
You said I still love you.
The leaves were turning
as we drove to the hardware store
my new lover made me keys to the house
And when we got home, well we just started chopping wood
‘Cause you never know how next year will be
and we’ll gather all our arms can carry
I have lost to february.