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Recorded on pat's acoustic on the back deck with lots of birdies joining in, this song began with one of my co-workers at the library saying -- In two weeks we'll meet again in grey" -- because sometimes people rotate the clothes they wear to work in a two week laundry cycle I guess.

But it became a song about being saved from drowning when I was 7 years old -- by my own dad who happened to be at the swimming pool doing laps as I was finishing my lessons. My dad died at age 55. That was 20 years ago but I still miss him.

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in two weeks we'll meet again in grey.
you'll wear that tie and I'll wear the same dress, and a solemn attitude that got us this bad mood. And I"ll wrap my scarf around my neck too tight, and dance while I wait for you, under the parking lot light.
When things get worse, as they're bound to do, when things get worse who will be with you? (x2)
When I was seven I learned to hold my breath from the shallows to the deep end -- I was ready for collapse, I was ready for the world to end.
In dreams you're always kicking underwater, swimming to a place I can't follow. With my cheeks puffed out I'll hold my breath in, and wait and wait and wait til you jump back in.
It's been the best of times, it's been the worst of worst, I'm not sorry though I'm cursed. Your absence clorinates the empty space, I'm back stroking trying to see your face.
Many years ago we met in black, you wore a tie and I wore the same dress, and I held and I held my breath.

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from two weeks in grey (backyard version), released November 5, 2014
Linda B.: guitar & vocals, birds: chirping sounds

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1. Our 2017 EP "The Distance Between Us" has bonus 8 remixed tracks from our 2004 CD!
2. "A Map of This City" 2015, is 15 bittersweet songs, tangled & snarly.

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