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Dark and Light

from You Them Me Us by Thinkspeak

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My spouse and I traveled in Europe for 2.5 months in 1982 - London, Amsterdam, Paris, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal. Then we came back to Atlanta, put a new roof on our house and settled in for some art-making. I started planning another trip, starting in San Diego, up the coast to Van Couver... she said, nope, we're going to have a baby. So somewhat later, realizing that my travel days were probably over (and it was well-worth the trade, that daughter). I put it into song, merging it with that sense we all experience now and then, of the impermanence of life.

lyrics

How'm I ever goin to make that trip
San Diego
San Francisco ol' Seattle
How'm I ever goin to take that ship
south to Rio

chorus:
comin through the window dark and light and dark and light
comin from a long time ago dark and light and dark and light

2.
how'm I ever goin to put it down
what's before me
before it's behind me
how'm I ever goin to speak it
what's before me - chorus

3.
once again I hear that siren sound
in the deep wood
the deep place in the city
downstream raging roaring waterfall
one clear warning - chorus

credits

from You Them Me Us, released November 5, 2012

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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