Simple Gifts

from Ismene by Cincinnati Time Store

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the trees' empty branches threw their shadows on the street
in the mellowing dusk we were dead on our feet
there was nowhere on ludlow we wanted to eat
so we got in your car and we cranked up the heat

you took reading road north from uptown
past where china cooking was before it shut down
karl called for a ride so we turned it around:
he's drunk in some bridal store, trying on gowns

when you sell out, there's no sign - there's no tell -
you hooked up your phone and played "heartbreak hotel" (1956)
and we drove off through evendale as the snow fell
if i never grow old or grow wealthy, oh well.


karl was making one hell of a scene
they would've called the cops had we not intervened
he stumbled outside and said "next halloween
i am going as myself from 2013"

at thanksgiving dinner they told us to grow up
our families they weren't all that pleased that we showed up
karl opened the window and leaned out to throw up
we're young and we're ugly and we're ready for our close-up

we dropped karl off safe at the liquor store,
bought some wine to pour out on the living room floor
for our friends who had come and those who'd gone before
through heaven's bright shining celestial door


our noses were numb and we walked glove and glove
down the lane as the sky turned to charcoal above
all i can give you is what i don't have much of:
my time and my money, my luck and my love

it's icy outside so we shut the windows tight
strength for today and bright hope for tonight
and turn around in the old feeble light
'til by turning and turning and turning we come around right

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from Ismene, released December 29, 2015

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