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How Do We Say Goodbye

from Acoustic Microwave Background I by Plumes

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Written in late Fall 2016/middle Spring 2017

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The seventeenth time that I tried for a try saw the tenth cry of “finally through”
October 7th allowed the 11th, lost crops from doubt’s drought regrew
I knew fertile land was hid under the sand
So I always make time for you

Collateral plight of an internal fight, I stepped in your ring off cue
Still as my hopes fell back onto the ropes I took every punch you threw
When push comes to shove if you untie your gloves
I’ll always have time for you

But midnight conversation
And escalator eyes
Again they meet on Mary’s Street

And I wonder if I’ll ask again how do we say goodbye
I wonder if I’ll ask again how do we say goodbye

Cause that’s when you kissed me, and the artifice fell
I almost announced it, but I thought you could tell

I thought it was progress, an unspoken kind
It seemed your translation of similar mind

But failures in voicing, left only four songs
About your disinterest, you’d tell me were wrong

I wondered if I’d ask again how do we say goodbye
I wondered if I’d ask again how do we say goodbye
I wondered if I’d ask again how do we say goodbye
I wondered if I’d ask again how do we say goodbye

And springtime revelations
Made space for the debut
An open stance on our advance

I always had time for you
I always had time for you

The plans of our lives like two sides of a zipper the teeth fastened now are few
With each conversation yet more confirmation the hunch that I had was true
We’re on the cusp now to zip the rest up

And I’ll always have time for you
I’ll always have time for you
I’ll always have time, I’ll always have time
I’ll always have time for you

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from Acoustic Microwave Background I, released February 17, 2018

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Plumes Boston, Massachusetts

Plumes is Ben Long (on the drums!) Tim Green and John Thorsen. Music- listening to it, learning to play it, writing more of it- has been one of few things we've taken really seriously for the last 7 years. These songs grew through many late nights and missed appointments. Our songs are all really about something. It's sincere and sometimes naked. Hope you like it ... more

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