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Sad Eyed Rambling Man

from Fits and Starts by Julie Jurgens

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don't sing me love songs
you know I can't hear them
for my heart is broken
like waves on the shore

but tell me your stories
over and over
it's the sound of your voice
I adore

we met in summer
your voice made my blood roar like the sea
but you loved another
I couldn't help falling
it was too late for me

I wait by the water
I watch the horizon
for signs of your ship
returning to land

you're no buckskin stallion
just a sad eyed rambling man
you've no golden galleon
but you do have my heart in your hands

you were so gentle
holding my head until all was still
I was so sentimental
thinking I could bend you to my will

I wish I were the traveler
I wish I were leaving you behind
a thin line against the vastness
a sliver of dark against the sky

but I am no rover
I need companion by my side
so don't sing me love songs
or I'll never get to sleep tonight

don't sing me love songs
you know I can't hear them
for my heart is broken
like waves on the shore

but tell me your stories
over and over
the sound of your voice awakens me
and I drown

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from Fits and Starts, track released May 5, 2012

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Julie Jurgens Chicago, Illinois

A singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist whose fearless, empathetic songs draw upon an upbringing in rural Illinois fraught with experiences of poverty, mental illness and domestic violence, sung from the perspective of a survivor and advocate who is mad as hell and determined to stand her ground. .pic by Joe Mazza-Brave Lux. ... more

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