Sweetness And Light

Counting Crows - Hard Candy

LRC by lzh ,from jiangxi pingxiang

@ www.lrcgc.com @



On certain Sundays in November

When the weather bothers me

I empty drawers of other summers

Where my shadows used to be

She is standing by the water

As her smile begins to curl

In this or any other summer

She is something altogether different

Never just an ordinary girl



And in the evenings on Long Island

When the colors start to fade

She wears a silly yellow hat

That someone gave her when she stayed

I didn't think that she returned it

We left New York in a whirl

Time expands and then contracts

When you are spinning

In the grips of someone

Who is not an ordinary girl

When you sleep

You find your mother in the night

But she stays just out of sight

So there isn't any sweetness in the dreaming



And when you wake

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