Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Chris Bathgate
Canonical path: /chris-bathgate/salt-year
Related lyric paths: 6
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Salt Year
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Salt Year
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seventeen years before
I should have hauled off and kissed her
now I lace my wine with ginger
just let my evenings pass
they pass
she's whistling in a candy store
and I'm just screaming in the dark here
I'm just choking down a salt yeah
and sugar's all I've longed for
I try again
seventeen and there she stood
a photograph in my doorway
and I felt all my light leave me
my thoughts all tumbling under
after that my days resign to static and gray hair and soft cry
like a cracked crystal second hand wine chime
just clanging for a lover
I can love
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Chris Bathgate performs "Salt Year", and this lyric page sits inside the Chris Bathgate catalog on LyroVerse.
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