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i lit up like a music box
kept you up all night
projecting
my intentions
in galaxies of light
we were two skipping stones
sitting on the coast
centuries ago
poisoned arrows flown
perfect throws
nights swimming alone

speeding city bus
punched me in the gut
as it’s back end swung
fishtails in the alleyway
please don’t stray
day jobs can wait

forget about your spoiled heart
and missing drugs
those days are gone
i’ll pay for everything
this month
this year
my love

your blue shoes
and your cowboy boots

tied my arms behind my back
with the telephone cord
broken rosary
sleeps on the kitchen floor
pictures that i keep
of the faces i used to see
they all hate me now
i missed every party

so happy birthday
dearest sorry
i just wanted one more try
and then stitched your wing with that wire
so now pigeon honey you can fly

cubist characters in a book i never read
just a bridge i burned
on a road
in my spinning head
torn papers touched
with lipstick smudged
red as blood
watched blonde hair sway
to the key of A
in a symphony of dust

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from Sometimes a Stranger, released September 1, 2004

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Proud Simon New York

Proud Simon was an Americana band from Rochester, New York, who formed in 2003. The band consisted of cousins Brian Keenan and Charlie Monte Verde. Over the course of the next 8 years, the band relocated to Brooklyn, went through countless lineup changes and recorded 3 LPs and 3 EPs. Their final EP was "Anchors Aweigh" in 2009. Songwriter Brian Keenan now performs under his own name. ... more

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