november afternoons by Rona Keller

November Afternoons

Bon Iver — Skinny Love

Come on skinny love, just last the year Pour a little salt, we were never here My My My — My My My — My My Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer

And I told you to be patient And I told you to be fine And I told you to be balanced And I told you to be kind

I tell my love to wreck it all Cut out all the ropes and let me fall My My My — My My My — My My Right in this moment this order‘s tall

And now all your love is wasted And then who the hell was I? And I‘m breaking at the bridges And at the end of all your lines

I told you to be patient I told you to be fine And I told you to be balanced And I told you to be kind

Who will love you? Who will fight? Who will fall far behind? Ooh — Ooh

In the morning I‘ll be with you But it will be a different kind I‘ll be holding all the tickets And you‘ll be owning all the fines Come on skinny love, what happened here? Suckle on the hope in lite brassieres My My My — My My My — My My Sullen load is full, so slow on the split

Ray LaMontagne — Empty

She lifts her skirt up to her knees Walks through the garden rows With her bare feet, laughing And I never learned to count my blessings I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes Laid bare my chest Said “Do your best, destroy me. You see, I‘ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.“

Walk on down the hill Through grass grown tall and brown And still it‘s hard somehow to let go of my pain On past the busted back Of that old and rusted Cadillac That sinks into this field collecting rain

There‘s a lot of things that can kill a man There‘s a lot of ways to die Yes, and some already dead that walk beside me There‘s a lot of things I don‘t understand Why so many people lie Well, it‘s the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

Will I always feel this way So empty, so estranged? And of these cut-throat busted sunsets These cold and damp white mornings I have grown weary If through my cracked and dusted dime-store lips I spoke these words out loud Would no one hear me? Lay your blouse across the chair Let fall the flowers from your hair And kiss me with that country mouth so plain Outside the rain is tapping on the leaves To me it sounds like they‘re applauding us The quiet love we‘ve made Will I always feel this way So empty, so estranged?

Will I always feel this way So empty, so estranged?

I SHOULD KNOW WHO I AM BY NOW

Joshua Radin â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Winter

I should know who I am by now I walk, the record stands somehow Thinking of winter Your name is the splinter inside me While I wait And I remember the sound Of your November downtown And I remember the truth A warm December with you But I don‘t have to make this mistake And I don‘t have to stay this way If only I would wake The walk has all been cleared by now Your voice is all I hear somehow Calling out winter Your voice is the splinter inside me While I wait

And I remember the sound Of your November downtown And I remember the truth A warm December with you But I don‘t have to make this mistake And I don‘t have to stay this way If only I would wake I could have lost myself In rough, blue waters in your eyes And I miss you still I remember the sound Of your November downtown And I remember the truth A warm December with you But I don‘t have to make this mistake And I don‘t have to stay this way If only I would wake

Suzanne Vega — Gypsy

You come from far away With pictures in your eyes Of coffeeshops and morning streets In the blue and silent sunrise But night is the cathedral Where we recognized the sign We strangers know each other now As part of the whole design Oh, hold me like a baby That will not fall asleep Curl me up inside you And let me hear you through the heat You are the jester of this courtyard With a smile like a girl‘s Distracted by the women With the dimples and the curls By the pretty and the mischievous By the timid and the blessed By the blowing skirts of ladies Who promise to gather you to their breast Oh, hold me like a baby That will not fall asleep Curl me up inside you And let me hear you through the heat You have hands of raining water And that earring in your ear

The wisdom on your face Denies the number of your years With the fingers of the potter And the laughing tale of the fool The arranger of disorder With your strange and simple rules Yes now I‘ve met me another spinner Of strange and gauzy threads With a long and slender body And a bump upon the head Oh, hold me like a baby That will not fall asleep Curl me up inside you And let me hear you through the heat With a long and slender body And the sweetest softest hands And we‘ll blow away forever soon And go on to different lands And please do not ever look for me But with me you will stay And you will hear yourself in song Blowing by one day Oh, hold me like a baby That will not fall asleep Curl me up inside you And let me hear you through the heat

you come from far away with pictures in your eyes of coffeeshops and morning t streets in the blue and silent sunrise

ten days

Missy Higgins â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ten Days

So we‘ve put an end to it this time I‘m no longer yours and you‘re no longer mine You said this hill looks far too steep If I‘m not even sure it‘s me you wanna keep And it‘s been ten days without you in my reach And the only time I‘ve touched you is in my sleep But time has changed nothing at all You‘re still the only one that feels like home I‘ve tried cutting the ropes And I let you go But you‘re still the only one that feels like home You won‘t talk me into it next time, If I‘m going away, your heart‘s coming too Cause I miss your hands, I miss your face When I get back let‘s disappear without a trace Cause it‘s been ten days without you in my reach And the only time I‘ve touched you is in my sleep

But time has changed nothing at all You‘re still the only one that feels like home I‘ve tried cutting the ropes And I let you go But you‘re still the only one that feels like home So tell me, did you really think Oh tell me, did you really think I had gone when you couldn‘t see me anymore? When you couldn‘t see me anymore Cause it‘s been ten days without you in my reach And the only time I‘ve touched you is in my sleep And I‘ve tried cutting the ropes I let you go But you‘re still the only one that feels like home You‘re still the only one that feels like home You‘re still the only one I‘ve gotta love

Mumford & Sons â&#x20AC;&#x201D; After The Storm

And after the storm I run and run as the rains come And I look up, I look up On my knees and out of luck I look up Night has always pushed up day You must know life to see decay But I won‘t rot, I won‘t rot Not this mind and not this heart I won‘t rot And I took you by the hand And we stood tall And remembered our own land What we lived for And there will come a time, you‘ll see with no more tears And love will not break your heart But dismiss your fears Get over your hill and see What you find there With grace in your heart And flowers in your hair And now I cling to what I knew I saw exactly what was true But oh no more

That‘s why I hold, That‘s why I hold with all I have That‘s why I hold And I won‘t die alone and be left there Well I guess I‘ll just go home Oh God knows where Because death is just so full And man so small Well I‘m scared of what‘s behind And what‘s before And there will come a time, you‘ll see With no more tears And love will not break your heart But dismiss your fears Get over your hill and see What you find there With grace in your heart And flowers in your hair And there will come a time, you‘ll see With no more tears And love will not break your heart But dismiss your fears Get over your hill and see What you find there With grace in your heart And flowers in your hair

Tracy Chapman — Fast Car

You got a fast car I want a ticket to anywhere Maybe we can make a deal Maybe together we can get somewhere Anyplace is better Starting from zero, got nothing to lose Maybe we‘ll make something But me myself I got nothing to prove You got a fast car And I got a plan to get us out of here I‘ve been working at the convience store Managed to save just a little bit of money Won‘t have to drive too far Just ‘cross the border and into the city You and I can both get jobs And finally see what it means to be living See my old man‘s got a problem He live with the bottle, that‘s the way it is He says his body‘s too old for working I say his body‘s too young to look like this My mama went off and left him She wanted more from life than he could give I said “Somebody‘s gotta take care of him.“ So I quit school and that‘s what I did You got a fast car Is it fast enough so we can fly away? We gotta make a decision Leave tonight or live and die this way

So remember when we were driving Driving in your car The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped ‘round my shoulder And I had a feeling that I belonged I had a feeling I could be someone Be someone, be someone You got a fast car We go cruising to entertain ourselves You still ain‘t got a job And I work in a market as a checkout girl I know things will get better You‘ll find work and I‘ll get promoted We‘ll move out of the shelter Buy a bigger house and live in the suburbs So remember when we were driving Driving in your car The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped ‘round my shoulder And I had a feeling that I belonged I had a feeling I could be someone Be someone, be someone

I‘d always hoped for better Thought maybe together you and me find it I got no plans I ain‘t going nowhere So take your fast car and keep on driving So remember when we were driving Driving in your car The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk City lights lay out before us And your arm felt nice wrapped ‘round my shoulder And I had a feeling that I belonged I had a feeling I could be someone Be someone, be someone You got a fast car But is it fast enough so you can fly away? You gotta make a decision Leave tonight or live and die this way

You got a fast car I got a job that pays all our bills You stay out drinking late at the bar See more of your friends than you do of your kids

Christina Perri — Jar of Hearts

Now I can‘t take one more step towards you Cause all that‘s waiting is regret And don‘t you know I‘m not your ghost anymore You lost the love I loved the most I learned to live half alive And now you want me one more time

Dear it took so long just to feel alright Remember how to put back the light in my eyes I wish I had missed the first time that we kissed Cause you broke all your promises And now you‘re back You don‘t get to get me back

And who do you think you are? Running ‘round leaving scars Collecting your jar of hearts And tearing love apart You‘re gonna catch a cold From the ice inside your soul So don‘t come back for me Who do you think you are?

I hear you‘re asking all around If I am anywhere to be found But I have grown too strong To ever fall back in your arms I learned to live half alive And now you want me one more time

Who do you think you are? Who do you think you are? Who do you think you are?

Gary Jules — Falling Awake

Eagle in the dark Feathers in the pages Monkeys in my heart Are rattling their cages

And it‘s never out of hand Never out of pocket I‘m supersonic man Do you wanna buy a rocket?

Found a way to blue And another ghost to follow Said “it‘s only up to you“ And that‘s the hardest pill to swallow

And that‘s just the way it goes Falling awake, falling awake Oh that‘s just the way it goes Falling awake, falling awake

You never get to choose You live on what they sent you And you know they‘re gonna use The things you love against you

Eagle in the dark Feathers in the pages Monkeys in my heart Are rattling their cages

One foot in the grave One foot in the shower There‘s never time to save You‘re paying by the hour

I could learn to play the game I could learn to run the hustle If I only had the brains The money or the muscle

And that‘s just the way it goes Falling awake And that‘s just the way it goes Slipping through the bars Aware of the danger Of riding in the cars Taking candy from strangers