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Goodbye Tennessee

from Shame by monkeyheaven

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What’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen?
For me it was that picture of you
Standing in the middle of the village green
That all the gypsy horses rode through

And what’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen?
For you it was that picture of me
Waltzing through the site of a bucolic scene
That no-one else will ever see

I know you were never far away
But somehow I just never got to
Say what I wanted to the woman who waltzed with me
Be what I wanted with the one who once wanted me
Until the waves freeze on the sea

In 1999
The year we had the summer of the lazy swine
Like 1944
We lay where we had fallen just the year before

So what’s the most amazing place you’ve ever been?
For me it’s the museum of you
Seeing all the things that I had rarely seen
All laid out in public view

Here's a frozen tableau of exotic things
Feelings we once thought were true
Now the dried up remnants of a one-time fling
We had when all the world was new

Even though you’re very far away
I know you will always come and
Stay in the middle of the mess that became of me
Live in the centre of the fossilised shell of me
Now that the waves freeze on the sea

So goodbye Tennessee
My natural history
Goodbye Tennessee

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from Shame, released August 30, 2014

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