"For Alex" genre: Folk
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	CD: 5 Song Demo Credits: Recorded by Rob Ignazio, Porter Square Studios, Cambridge
	Lyrics Don't be thinking you abandoned me/ i never wanted you to stay/ And don't be thinking you're standing me up/ i just like this place/ And though you said you'd be here and you're not/ I can still watch the rain/ And the people coming in/ Talking loud and talking thin in the day It's my forty-second cup/ And the waittress is getting tired/ And thank god I drink decaf/ Or i certainly would be wired/ And a man walks up and asks my name/ I say, "Michelle adn I'm from Mars."/ "Hey, I think I've heard of that! What's it like up there?"/ "We've got laser eyes and we see through people's hearts."/ He walks away And I do not mean to see too much/ I loved the gentle sway/ of rocking on a summer's porch and throwign thoughts as high as they could fly/ And you caught them in the sky and then you'd throw them back again/ But Alex, when time is past/ These things we love/ they cannot last/ And I have never had illusions/ I could see the flowers dying when I held the seeds in spring Don't be thinking that I went astray/ i meant to let you in my life/ With your talk all full fo diamonds/ you fancied me a poor man's wife, yeah/ And don't be thinking that the ring you brought/ was anything bur rusted tin/ but I wore it and I told my friends/ "See, it's sweet, it's just like him." And after the sun had drifted away/ We lay put on the rocks and let the coldness be our blanket/ And I wasn't singing/ i think it was just/ A wind caught in your ear/ you seemed to hear these things I never meant to say Don't be thinking that you heard me right/ I said, "It's good that you are here./ Though you don't bring too much warmth/ I like to trace your salt-cold tears"/ But you heard me say, "I do not know/ If I need you or I don't"/ So you tried to test to see how far/ See how far I'd let you go And I never tried to hold you down/ I knew that you would try to fly/ Like a young and still new bird/ hitting branches/ missing half the sky And I know that you are far away/ i can feel it in my bones/ Alex, with your seiko watch/ Alex, with your book of half-read poems

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