Receipt As A Bookmark

a receipt as a bookmark
for the time we had
in a lounge in an airport
full of smoke so sad

i planted some copper
and hoped for a tree
you leave in one year
i'll believe it when i see

(2nd verse)

listening to sad songs
till you've had your fill
old thoughts begin flooding
better build a windmill

for something so simple
as touching your hair
was once so inviting 
now swims in salty despair

(chorus slashbridge)

and you'll never know
why furnaces freeze 
in a subtropical breeze

and you find 
heathens all around
making angels in sand
nursing their sore swollen glands

in the snow
in the snow
in the snow
in the snooooooowooooowooooooooooooooooo

(3rd verse)

a lesson you learned
back in seventh grade
the war does not end 
on armistice day

although it sounds civil 
the die has been cast
and everyone wagers
on just how long it will last

and you'll never know
how long it will last

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