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plucked from a decade

by Kate Peterson

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how do i miss you so well my heart’s as empty as a windy lake michigan cold spell didn’t i love you so well we’d wake up singing like summertime even when the snow fell babe did i ask for too much were you sitting at home waitin for phone if there’s a place then there’s a way you could come back home try to forgive all the rights that i made wrong just settle in and remember when it was our simple love when all we had was what we had and it was always enough babe you were the one it was said and done it was said and done it was said and done and the same way winter takes me by surprise every time you looked me in the eye you said I tried you said I tried if there’s a place then there’s a way you could come back home try to forgive all the rights that i made wrong just settle in and remember when it was our simple love when all we had was what we had and it was always enough babe you left me high I still close my eyes to the sight of you laughin in the sunlight Wont you just give me one more try We can get by I think we’ll get by or I’ll die trying if there’s a place then there’s a way you could come back home try to forgive all the rights that i made wrong just settle in and remember when it was our simple love when all we had was what we had and it was always enough we were always
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these sliding sounds make me want to write down all the things i love about this town like the way october leaves line my street like a bed of rose pedals under my feet and this city seems so small cause i know faces everywhere i go and i feel so full with my friends surrounding me just cross the street you know where to find me i watch my rearview down one way streets just to get a perspective unfamiliar to me i sit by the river in the heart of the city just to feel its beat inside of me that’s why i love this city and all its simple beauty as i slow to a stop on the these streets i stroll like sidewalks i feel safe in this steady home it makes me think its time to roam i watch my rearview down one way streets just to get a perspective unfamiliar to me now when i spend each night inside a different city i know exactly what home means that’s why i must be leaving its time to travel on with my sights ahead of me these sliding sounds make me want to write down all the things i love about this town
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i owe you a phone call that doesn’t seem so hard but these feelings are not small they’re tuggin pushin on my heart but i miss you i could write you a letter spell it out piece by piece cause it always always goes better when you can’t talk back to me but i miss you and the road keeps rolling by pop songs and neon signs and this story keeps aging leaving nothing but blank pages i miss you i do i could write some kind of friendly little love song sing the words i fail to speak glue some pictures on a small brown paper package and address it to you from me
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I can feel you reaching down to The bottom of my silent side I can feel you reaching for parts of me so unrefined I want to hand you everything hand shaking blood swelling come here please take it, take it from me lets be all the things we dreamed we dreamed we dreamed Your love is and airplane in my chest you love like a freight train racing west you are the sunrise over a curvy skyline and I will drive and drive and drive until you are my night time I want to hand you everything hand shaking blood swelling come here please take it, take it from me lets be all the things we dreamed we dreamed we dreamed I can feel you soaking into the center of my solid side
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my memory fails me was it yesterday or the day before that you sunk your pen into the slate of my soul to scribble me that note? all i know is that something changed that moment it was new and you knew it too yeah cause change happens every day, today, and yesterday too and all the things I've loved before are scattered around me on the floor in two dimensional shades of gray, blue and black and coffee stained so i've come to the realization that the grace that flows from these pages is no where to be found these days but that's okay cause loving is learning and growing is changing and change happens every day, today, and yesterday too and all the things I've loved before are scattered around me on the floor in two dimensional shades of gray, blue and black and coffee stained and all the things I've left behind are roaming the rooms of my mind creaking doors and cracking tiles oh the miles oh the miles i have yet to drive so lets go for a ride i'll try to explain to you the depths of my silence my answers come slow when i'm so over occupied when i'm alone and you see the difference between you and me is our entire history our entire lives... and all the things I've loved before are scattered around me on the floor and all the things I've left behind are roaming the rooms of my mind and all the things that i have today are the things that i'm trying to explain yeah change happens everyday...today, and yesterday too
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i heard you when you said that you're impossible and i chose to ignore you when you said thats not all you spent time seeking silence to find your own way out and i spent time waiting sideline for you to break on down your doubt and i heard you when you said you couldn't get outside your head and right then i learned that my say had no space inside of it and in time you'll burn away the heaviness that holds you down and when you finally break free you'll cast the ashes all around i heard you when you said you're suffocating here your lungs too small too hold the air four walls inching closer with each breath you breathe in how could you help recoil further further further further further within i heard you when you said that your impossible i chose to ignore you when you said thats not all
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i wake up in the morning let the light fall in on me just stay warm for a moment in my own company dismiss all the questions ominous and heavy there’s no time to fall apart now there are so many places to be but as i step outside myself i can see my losses making sense we are living what we love regardless of consequence and we all wake up in the morning for the very same reason to make sounds that say something like we have no other option if you ask me the question what feeds you every day i’d say i work for my passions my song my friends my family yes the are the things that fuel me but my pockets are empty now i’ve learned to live simply just for the sake of singing i’ll just dismiss all the questions ominous and heavy theres no time to hide away now there are so many songs to sing
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you fell away some days I can still hear you cryin in my head the ways that we were when we were then some days I can still feel you laughing in my bed the ways that we were then some days I can still see it clearly in my head the ways that we were when we were then some days I can still feel a silence in my chest the ways that we were then, we were then and as I wander though these cities where we’ve never been I can hear your voice echoing inside of them then I picture you riding down your windy streets you ride now like your backs against the breeze some days you fell away some days I fell away some days I hear you say things you’ve never said like how it was all worth it in the end and most days you are an unfinished song you come line by line as my days move along
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this crazy’s creeping in its wrapping slowly limb by limb string so thin its diggin diggin diggin in i can’t remember ever wanting just to disappear oh my puppeteer it’s got me bending at the knees dancing in circles 359 degrees of second chances pulling harder at the strings oh how high they go oh oh i don’t know i don’t know if im losing control losing or letting go letting go it’s plain to see the surprise in all your eyes imagine how i don’t recognize mine im squinting watching the mirror spiral into spot light i don’t know i don’t know if im losing control losing or letting go letting go feet cant find the ground head is whipping around its shaking side to side saying you don’t know you don’t know you don’t know i don’t know i don’t know if im losing control losing or letting go letting go
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i may not keep the garden growing so many seasons bought and sewn it’ll always be there in the morning that’s what I’m told so many lanes and trains and airplanes so many miles i call home they’ll always be there in the morning that’s what I’m told and i’m away, i’m away … we’ve got it good in all the good ways no real reason to complain still we brave so many dark days with nothing and no one to blame and we’re away, we’re away… we’re away, we’re away… our home is the light shining through the curtain pulling in to pull it open and your arms length is the open window this is what i know now im awake, im awake, im awake im awake, im awake, im awake open my eyes to the brighter side let the sky define my size im awake, im awake, im awake
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sometimes i wake up in the middle of night start making a list of all the things i like about you its just the moonlight and the sound of your breathing going round and round and round and i know you’re gonna be here tomorrow but for right now let’s pretend you gotta go cause i’ve been waiting for you just to come on to we’re gonna break some rules we’re gonna stay up til the morning and im sorry i know you gotta get up early but im not sorry that its not yet time for working cause i’ve been waiting for you just to come on to we’re gonna break some rules we’re gonna stay up til the morning i’ve been dreamin about ya you got me up on my feet you got me chasing you down you got me running in my sleep will you be waiting for me when i finally make it to ya cause there’s no telling about it there’s no telling what we’ll do cause i’ve been waiting for you just to come on to we’re gonna break some rules we’re gonna stay up til the morning sometimes i wake up in the middle of night its just the moonlight

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This is a collection of songs written by Kate Peterson over the last 10 years and performed by Nervous but Excited (collaboration with Sarah Cleaver)

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released October 28, 2014

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