I Won't Get To See (Your Hair Grow Long)

from Not Every Garden Is Eden by Samantha Sklar

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I’m leaving before winter comes
I won’t get to see your hair grow long
I’m leaving before winter comes
I won’t get to see your hair grow long

I was no model of maturity
Though I’m not sure I fooled you
The act was for me
But you could’ve fooled me
You’re very sweet when you want something
Drunkenly sweet until you withdraw
Pensive at the edge of the bed
You pick up my guitar
Your eyes stare far off
And you turn away your head

I tend overestimate myself and my place
You embrace me
Then you say you’ve got some other place to be
So you kiss me then you leave me
But I can’t pretend
There isn’t blood on both our hands
In an act of self restraint
I feigned indifference
I lost my chance

Over a smoldering Friday night phone call
One thing led to another
You told me how you’d love me
When this is all over
You left me waiting
Though you owe me no explanation
We were no longer lovers
We were just playing the part
Now all thats left were embers
Where I was looking for a spark

Over a sobering Monday morning coffee
I realized I won’t be so high reminiscing
On the counter l had the portrait
You had taken of me
With your camera from the war
One night I was singing my lonely songs
And all the words I sang for you
To someone else are now brand new

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from Not Every Garden Is Eden, released June 15, 2020
Written, Recorded, and Produced by Samantha Sklar

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