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Open Hands (Dargan)

Your shape still drifting in the darkness
Surfaces to slowly take my hand
Lead me through the darkness
A quiet place you know I understand
You never speak so slowly
Never pause to help me understand
You just appear in darkness
Bow my head beneath your open hands

Ask me once, the question fades
I’ve never been completely in the know
Ask me twice, I’ll draw the shades
Let me help you help me let it show
You never speak so slowly
Never pause to help me understand
You just appear in darkness
Bow my head beneath your open hands

We always seem to recover slowly
Never seem to laugh at our mistakes
Half the time and now you told me
Twice the distance, not to wait
Your darkest pants can’t hide the secret
The truth is mostly what’s not there to see
I still reach for you hand and sometimes
Hear your voice still echo deep in me

Lightly-bearded, breathing down
Staring at you, twenty feet below
Silver earrings stare right back
Can’t you give me someplace else to go
Never seem to tire now
Not since you’ve been sleeping in my bed
I tried to say goodbye
I always end up kissing you instead
You never speak so slowly
Never pause to help me understand
You just appear in darkness
Bow my head beneath your open
Ever-shifting, drifting, falling
Buried somewhere… right there in the sand
I could fill your empty darkness
With my ever-willing open hands

© 1994 Slightly Charred Music

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from dance on the windows (1994), released January 1, 1994

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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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