Starting Square

from Lucy by Lucy Wainwright Roche

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hello and from there where else can we go hello
a song i’m expected now to play along with a song
you crook just a boy sitting there with his book and a smile that the camera took
leaving you just the same as you always looked

as for me i’m as changed as a girl can be can’t you see
that i’ve flown to the edges of the earth and home i’ve flown
from your chair i can tell you can tell it from there that i may have been everywhere
but i’m back back to the starting square

in my nights i have bargained with the eastern lights
in my nights we’ve met and the trouble was no trouble at all to forget
dreaming we spoke chalked it up to a terrible joke and then we each took a hold of the rope
with one match and the problem went up in smoke

it’s just there / it’s not right or wrong or fair it’s just there
a big heart a rotten ending and a fumbling start a big heart
and isn’t it so that when i see you at the end of this show that we’ll start with the places we know
and walk long down the road that we always go

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from Lucy, released October 1, 2010

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