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You and Me

from therein lies the garden by Eli Shane

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lyrics

How I love your diction
There’s a reason to every line
Gabbing like a greedy politician
Who deep down knows what he’s saying’s not right
But that’s what I dig, you can see through bullshit
And I’ll circle and square but there’s no getting ‘round it
We’re like fire as a force
We’ll burn right through this forest
We’ll burn right through each other
Say it together: “Thank me later”

Then you’ll sulk in the doorway
I’ll sit on the floor like a child would

I don’t know where the dirt under my nails came from
But I know I stay clean
Seems you’ve been real perceptive lately
And I admit that’s more than I’ve achieved

Your legs should be fine but you still have to pay for the ambulance

I was called in that day, you said “I’ve got some news,
I’ve been reading Ishiguro and the Harvard Law Review,
I’ve been building up my stamina, my strategy, my gravitas!”
And I stood there, confusingly not confused
I replied: “I understand why did these things,
I understand that life can bring some questions to the forefront of your mind
But going crazy isn’t the way
We’re standing on a king-sized bed
We’ve got money to last the rest of our lives”
And the dialogue kept going for an hour or more
Til our legs collapsed and we realized the taxation of worrying
We faced opposite ways
Vowed to stop counting the days
Realized there’s no fun in being miserable and so suddenly we felt okay
(We’re two worrisome individuals but I think we’ll make it out okay)

One more conversation to have:
Where should we live?
You suggest a humble abode
I called that cheesy and you said that everything is
You hit the spot with that one
Had me feeling some kind of way
Your diction’s still dreamy, you know how to get me
We’ll feel like some fairytale gaze

Your legs should be fine but you still have to pay for the goddamn ambulance
And I’ll come for the ride cause those EMTs are especially masculine
If I get desperate for rhymes, you can rip up my shit and we’ll start again
I’ve come a long way, I can navigate away from the tactlessness
Fifty years from now, we’ll have it together while the others are still scrambling
And by that time, the ambulance will be free
We’ll realize there’s a lot more to this world than you & me
Thus we’ll realize we don’t need to realize anything
We don’t have to care about whatever’s not called you & me

credits

from therein lies the garden, track released January 28, 2022
Eli Shane - songwriting, production, vocals, guitar, harp, arranging
Mika Leonard - cello
Jager Soss - drums
Sophie Grosswendt - bass
Jack Worrell - engineering, clarinet arrangements
Chris Wallitsch - mixing
Tom Waltz - mastering

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Eli Shane Port Chester, New York

Composition student, etc. My debut album "therein lies the garden" is out now.

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