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Can I Come Home?

from wilder sessions by Dear Commonwealth

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She asked me how I take my liquor,
“Well I take it down”
She told me to take it easy
I smiled and said, “that’s just not my style.”
When I was young I would wander so far from my home I couldn’t hear the dinnerbell,
and at fifteen I took the truck and hit the road just like a bat straight out of hell.

My papa always used to tell me, “Don’t you be like me.”
“Better get yourself a job in the mine ‘cause they did lie when they told us that love is
free.”
I always stared up at the milky moon when I could smell that whiskey on his teeth.
Now siftin’ through the bourbon smoke I see my papa knew that moon weren’t made for
me.

When my brothers both got older they took to the mine,
saved up a couple of coins and bought into the same old paradigms,
I never wanted my life to become a lunch box, hardhat, time card, and a black lung,
Yeah I thought a lot of things, back when I was young.

she said "Well I don’t know nothin’ ‘bout that, but I can tell you this,
with you takin’ shots like that, when you find love and raise your gun you’ll surely miss
I used to love with all my heart a boy with those bourbon tastin’ lips
but I knew I couldn’t stay with him, every time we kissed."

credits

from wilder sessions, released October 6, 2012
Daniel Lobb: Guitar
Cory Todd: Upright bass
Boris Popadiuk: Cello
Jake Flaschen: Trumpet
Duncan Standish: Drums
Josh Rosner: Banjo

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