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Before the War (Bonner)

It’s been years and years and years and years and years
But I counted every minute until you
Now a cold wind blows right through the house and past this couch
Is that silence on the phone really you?

Now the days have cut me short, I feel us dying
Remember watching leaves fall from trees before the war

All you do is sit there sending love by semaphore
But I read through it like a first-grade reader’s easy book
I know you try, I know you write, I know you telephone
But is that silence in the bed really you?

Now the years have left me short, I feel us dying
How about we take a walk the way we did before the war

I never meant for us to die…

I’d like to trick you into giving things another chance
But you’ve finally got me figured out, I fear
I’ve got as many hearts as the floor of any slaughterhouse
And you know I keep them to myself

Where the ocean meets the rocks you’ll find me dying
Trying hard to find that shirt I wore before the war
And if we ever meet again after the dying
I kept your letters in a box, painted up before the war

(c) 1992 North Sea Spaceport Music

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from The Big Picture (2005), released January 1, 2005

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Sean Michael Dargan Madison, Wisconsin

Sean Michael Dargan is almost too tall, standing six feet, four inches in his favorite black-and-white saddle shoes. On a good day he writes and plays pop rock in the vein of Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, Aimee Mann, and the Gin Blossoms. Guitar and voice are his main instruments, but if you’re not nice he’ll go get out his bagpipes. ... more

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