Name: Wrong Lifetime
Duration: P00H02M41S
Description: the title of this song changes as often as we do.

Wrong Lifetime

from Coffee and Rivers by Jennifer Stuart

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How did you do it,
How did you make my world so small?
Once upon a time you told me
that you grow on people.
But I think it's more that you grow straight in,
you lay down roots and you lay down tracks.
Before someone knows it, their skyline is different,
and there's no going back.

It just took one summer night,
and a little too much to drink
now you're all I can think about.
Every road in town
is another river to your door,
I fight the current every time my boots hit the floor.

I've been trying to get better about some things
like saying what I mean
instead of digging a bunch of holes
out of which I gotta climb.
But it was never hard with you,
I was always so good at telling the truth.
I would say just the right thing
just in the wrong lifetime.

Now there you are
on the other side of a traffic light
but it's way too late to tell you everything
burning me up inside
so I'll just look away
at the sunset or a tree
and you won't even know
that I didn't see you
not even looking at me.

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from Coffee and Rivers, track released April 18, 2019

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Jennifer Stuart Williamsburg, Massachusetts

When the big stuff gets put into small lines, it feels more manageable, to me at least.

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