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Relativity

from wilder sessions by Dear Commonwealth

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With our hearts so massive and our bodies so close why don’t you stay?
I whispered in her ear the night before she shot the Milky Way,
She smiled once and kissed me twice and tracin’ constellations cross my cheeks,
she said the gravity between our heart would always swing her back to me.

We slept that night curled up inside her rocket ship was set to go,
The warm smell of her long red hair like rocket fuel was set to blow,
when morning came she kissed my lips said, “Baby it’s about that time.”
I said, “Maybe in your reference frame but surely honey not in mine.”

Oh my baby’s fadin’ outta sight, she’s flyin from me damn near the speed of light
she said she’ll be home by tomorrow night but I know, that’s not how it goes

My baby never let me know how long for her I’d have to wait,
yeah every time I asked her said she’d only be gone a day,
but in a drawer I found mission plans that detailed her velocity,
my baby’s gone at point 9999999992 C.

oh my baby’s clocks are tickin slow she’s flyin from me to taste the sweet cosmos
she said she’ll be home before I even know she’s gone, but that don’t take long

I waited round for fifty years my beard was brushin’ ‘gainst my knees,
pickin’ on the back porch when the wind clear knocked me off my feet,
there walkin’ with her long red hair my baby beamin’ back at me,
she took me up into her arms kissed constellations cross my cheeks.

oh my baby girl is lookin’ fine, I’m 73 she’s in her college prime,
but I don’t feel old and she don’t seem to mind, “without you,” she said, “my day
has been so blue.”

credits

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

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