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Dead Reckoning LongLiner Notes

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song he whistles through his teeth like sayonara<br />

sung by an all knowing chanteuse who is not well known<br />

unknowable<br />

but only guessing at the answers ,if the truth be told.<br />

Version 2 3 AM<br />

Or think of it as an epic<br />

never ending<br />

the lost poems<br />

found in an old trunk<br />

the ones i never knew you'd written<br />

it was as if you were already familiar with them<br />

like i found Women In Love<br />

in a drawer when I was 10 had to call an ambulance<br />

your heart constricted lying in a bathtub<br />

maybe you were already dead<br />

but they brought you back for an encore<br />

for a while nothing was as it was before<br />

or has been ever since<br />

you making donuts and singing with the radio<br />

in an english country garden a theme song<br />

but whose what where and when<br />

as the cat knocked all the apple blossoms from the trees<br />

you had such high hopes for<br />

that year until moving above a pool hall<br />

abandoned as you described so well<br />

what I was feeling on the beach alone<br />

with my transistor motown and a crush<br />

on a boy who shot peas from a pea shooter<br />

and never gave me the time of day<br />

do we choose the ones<br />

who not so much are playing hard to get<br />

if only you had told me<br />

it was a planetary influence<br />

passing already passed<br />

though the rational choices i made<br />

the few i made when i made them<br />

as if riding my bike up the hill<br />

to your house i took a different way<br />

just for a change got lost<br />

and never found you again<br />

after that day when you stopped believing in my stories<br />

said they were only JUST stories anyway.<br />

As IF we had something<br />

more important to be doing later

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