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Goodbye Bunny Smith

by Broken Hearts Are Blue

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And when you walk in the room It’s written all in your face The specter of Johnny looms Escape while running in place The creeps are calling to ya One hand to hold at a time It took a year to wake up To the weird feeling you’re fine Do you wanna? I don’t I always think of the past Don’t ever think of right now That time we danced was a gas I’d hate it if it was now So tell me something you’ve learned And maybe I’ll learn it too And then together we’ll burn Every last bridge and start new Do you wanna? I don’t
2.
Here I am again to begin again And to find some sort of quiet end Along the straight of night A double appears to fight Through the thick I find a man “Do you know who I am?” In life’s fated rough Even if it’s me, I’m not enough I croon with the heart that’s left Even though you’ve gone deaf To the wonder, to the despair My same old tune Here I am again to story-tell again And to find some sort of end Here I am again, you see but don’t believe I gather the baggage to cleave She took on loan my rare charms Taking harbor in my empty arms With a self-help glow to her way I should have known what she’d say Here I am again
3.
You held my hand in clouds in a turbulent landing We felt the sky surging up through the floor The pills and wine, perhaps some slight trouble standing And once again we’re crashing through unlocked doors Before we shut down All we do is shut down, oh no After the flight, half in and out of a taxi (Do you wanna go through that again?) The night’s insane, laughing at Emily’s lies Hey, did you pray to whatever as we were descending? I heard you laugh nervously in the sky And then we shut down All we do is shut down, oh no And when you walked through my door Perfect timing, babe What for? Was it love or just a misunderstanding? I feel deranged breaking down unlocked doors You tasted rain and your tears in the drink you demanded And for an hour we were who we were before We both just shut down
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She told me her name was Goodbye Can I call you Maud instead I replied I want to know about your Catholic life “To find my heart you’ll need a longer knife” At the angle of night, we met in dim light With our forms of high delight If you believe me, then it will be true Without your lips this world just won’t do Goodbye Bunny Smith Where did you go after the summer all those many years ago? She liked her men with a streak of gray And to them she would always say “I long to kiss you, but I’ll never love you Stopping everything I feel will have to do” She prayed me a lie with her Eggleston eye In an everyday room, pretense removed She used my lap to cry herself to sleep Somewhere deep a sadness lay beneath Goodbye Bunny Smith Where did you go after the summer all those many years ago? Born in the sticks with the county’s best lisp She had “perhaps” carved on her wrist Her affairs were short, the forgetting long The facts were her tricks, the truths her song Goodbye Bunny Smith Where did you go after the summer all those many years ago? We idled on a lawn on the outskirts of town Our leather jackets tossed on the ground Let us bloom and wither in Midwestern scree Maybe tomorrow, maybe never, maybe
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I sent you a letter indexing life’s ills Without the bonbon to guild the pills Legless and coming to grieve the past Gonna nail this beige heart to the mast Time marches on Sha-la-la-la-la oooh oooh So I sat about in front of my analyst: “Oh yes, surely I’ve got the fucking gist Bear the palm with a gratitude list Try to sing your life from happiness” Time marches on
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Born of that cruel April fog A timeworn kid at ten years on Crawls toward the locked land That takes and never gives back Press play and go to a place That child in the sunless wood A boy with a minor key heart Veiled inside of the hemlock shade But I want to live you know And make my makers proud I want what others have He can’t know the tale’s truth The skull it spins its own yarn He can’t say without a doubt That he didn’t make it all up The recall it goes to a time When clarity fades away Where there are no more eyes To see the 5th grade crimes But I want to live you know And make my makers proud I want what others want Want what others have That pleasant kid grew old Like an ancient cave drawing A common grin atop the wreck and ruin A cheerless funnyman within

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released April 12, 2020

Broken Hearts Are Blue
Derek Brosch
Daniel Buettner
Bryan Charles
Ryan Gage

Additional Musician
Derek Van Gieson

Recorded and mixed in Minneapolis by Knol Tate, March 2020
All songs and lyrics written and performed by Broken Hearts Are Blue

* Everything Trying written by Damien Jurado

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Broken Hearts Are Blue are a indie rock band whose members live in Kalamazoo, Minneapolis, Alameda, and Los Angeles.

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