Brilliant Blue

Spoke of motivation and attention that I could not stand
 I'd dreamt of easy answers and abandoned everything
 Said oh no, I hold them dear
 The things I left just to be here
 Such sentiments, they stuck my ears
 A taught and tinny ring
 But there I was, just sitting in your room
 Some boy you barely knew
 Cars passed by as the conversation grew
 Somewhere out on Ditmas avenue, ooh
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 A snowy walk, you gave me gloves
 I told you I believed in love
 It's something I've been thinking of
 These weeks you've been away
 Tried hard not to seek sublime
 In dreams of the domestic kind
 And sure we settled some in time
 I'm glad I came to stay
 Family's care, you take time to convey
 We hung photos on the wall of all our friends so far away
 And said, "I hope you'll come and stay again some day"
 Yeah, we're always thinking of you (Ooh)
 And on the ninth time out of ten
 You just start to begin
 To let the light shine through in brilliant blue
 And take a breath and then
 Circle 'round the sun
 Open to what comes
 Said I'm still me, I'll always be
 But that don't mean I'm done
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 Intimate and understood
 The way we tell these tales feels good
 We wander through the neighborhood
 Some night some other time
 Boundaries once were laundry lists
 That never captured quite the gist
 The boys we've kissed, consoled and missed
 So tenderly remind
 For now, I'm just not terribly concerned
 Except for the essence left unlearned
 And now our footsteps toward the house have turned
 Live oaks lean in early evening