Name: Don't Know What to Tell You
Duration: P00H06M06S
Description: 80's synthpop meets bebop poetry

Don't Know What to Tell You

from Lincoln Boyhood Home by Chris Harper

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80's synthpop meets bebop poetry

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Waiting at this station for the 9:30 bus
Cause she's coming home again
She's been gone so long
I've been down and missing her
I knew why she had to leave
But it didn't ease the pain
So I sit here on this bench
With a man who smells homeless
A mother and her children

I dont know what to tell you
So I'll just tell you that I need you
I want you
I love you

Time spins out slowly for me and
For the man leaning on the wall
Across the way from me holding a paper coffee cup
He's got a greasy neck and obviously dyed-black hair
"I wouldn't trust my child with him"
I think to myself judgementally
The homeless man sits up and smiles
A big missing-teeth grin at me and I try to ignore him
Where is that bus?

I dont know what to tell you
So I'll just tell you that I need you
I want you
I love you

The youngest child wakes up and cries
While the mother tries to ease his dismay
The greasy man walks over to
The smelly homeless man and he
Hands him his coffee cup and a twenty
Says, "Take care, pal, I've been there too."
I can barely hear the announcement
Over the sound of my guilty conscience
"The 9:30 bus has been delayed"

I dont know what to tell you
So I'll just tell you that I need you
I want you
I love you

The bus finally arrives at 10:25 and
I wade to find her through the departing flow
She's second-to-last off the bus but she's always first to me
I give her a hug like I haven't seen her in a year
Even though it's only been a week
She smiles that toothy grin that first caught my eye so long ago
And it's love at first sight all over again
We drive home in silence, me holding her hand
While she leans her head on my shoulder
And everything is right in my little world

I dont know what to tell you
So I'll just tell you that I need you
I want you
I love you

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from Lincoln Boyhood Home, released July 26, 2013
All instruments played and/or programmed by Chris Harper
All vocals by Chris Harper

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