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Splinter

from Hail Bohemia by John Shakespear

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lyrics

Driving back from the wake
I took the backroads out to the Cape
Don’t know why, it was late
guess I needed to think for a second or two

In the last of the light,
I was watching the birds and the fireflies fly
through the tangerine sky
I felt like a guy in a movie
that I wouldn’t like and you wouldn’t trust
too sentimental, a little too much

Tommy, slow walker tough talker you
showed me something that used to seem true
but that was a long, long time
I tried to bottle it up so it would stay mine
through the long, long winter
take the splinter out of my hand
call me your friend

At the fork in the road
by the dog racing track and the marigolds
it all hit me at once, somehow I almost forgot
the way we lived when we were younger
the alibis and the breathless hunger
We made a chapel of each other
just us three inside the thunder

but that was a long, long time,
I tried to bottle it up so it would stay mine
through the long, long winter,
take the splinter out of my hand
call me your friend

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from Hail Bohemia, released May 17, 2023

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John Shakespear Brooklyn, New York

John Shakespear writes albums that tell a story from start to finish. The next one, 'Hail Bohemia,' comes out on May 17.

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