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Springtime In a Foreign City

from Springtime in a Foreign City by sonofmel

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Springtime In a Foreign City written in the faraway for a small town Turkish Rapunzel, missiles flying across the border, while her valley lay surrounded by snowy peaks, where folks grew grapes picked and spread out to dry to raisins in summer's final heat. Her namesake, Defne, was woven into wreaths worn by victors. She still wins me over... “Oh Laurel let your hair fall down from the sky, I'll climb on up to you and on a star together we'll lie... Oh Laurel you never wore shoes growing up in your little town, you had to come to the big city, meet me and the whole world, to bring you down.”

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Springtime in a Foreign City

And its springtime in a foreign city where the flowers and trees grow up to stand as passive armies of honest pity
Their faces blossoming to the sun pleading don’t ever stop please don’t ever stop your burning
And I head my face behind a curtain of long black hair that curls around the nighttime sky full of stars, too afraid to look am I

Oh Laurel let your hair fall down from the sky
I’ll climb on up to you and on a star together we’ll lie
Oh Laurel, you never wore shoes growing up in your little town
You had to come to the big city, meet me and the whole world to bring you down

And the diamonds in the rough scream is there room and time enough for us yet to shine,
from the edge of a landslide unpolished, feeling left behind,
but just like coal, anything black has already been or will be burned,
in the age of double-talkin treason peoples voice gets spurned

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from Springtime in a Foreign City, track released May 1, 2017
Written by Sonofmel: guitar, vocal
Piano/Accordion: Peter Sands
Percussion: Peter Anderson

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sonofmel Hayward, Wisconsin

Sometimes it takes traveling far from home to find out where one comes from... after combing the world for signs of the sacred among paths of the profane, Sonofmel returns with fistfuls of chords wrapped up in verse that declare though trouble never starves, somewhere high above the maladies of modern man, the sky is still as blue as when Adam first kissed Eve... ... more

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