A Large White Oak

from A Thought, Anyway by The Harmful

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The attitude
Made us go faster then we could say
I was letting go faster then we could grow
I was showing myself better then I would know
Your aptitude
To show me yourself far away from me
To hold to yourself what I didn’t see
To make sure that we don’t always agree

But we let go
In a parking garage in your car
And I told you all that I ever knew
You you told that you already know
It felt like
Some sort of tragedy but it's not quite
You figured that out before I knew it
And you told me on the ride home

The trees don’t grow
Beside the road was a large white oak
They tore it down for a power line
Used the wood to fence off a home
And you told me
What the city blocks use to look like
And showed me the parks that you grew up in
And what happened to the church that closed

Did you feel the same wind that a felt
Did you hear my voice when I would yell
Did you walk around the same patch of grass
Did you think about just what would last
Was there anything between us then
Or something that joins us again
Was there meaning forming us to be
Was there anything quiet in me

Did you know how much that I cared for you x100

There’s minutes left
I’m noting down all the words you said
When everyone’s going far away
Will you still have all those words to say
And I know
My type of phrasing never got me far
Maybe I’ll always be driving cars
And parking on the side of roads

But did you know how much that I cared for you

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from A Thought, Anyway, released January 15, 2021

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