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FIVE FINGER EXERCISE

Rae Perigoe

1

The right-hand piano tinkles away,


A hand disembodied bringing thoughts of yesterday.


Who will you walk with if not me? Not me.


I’m not bitter; you’re very kind…


Just as a friend should be. Then you put it out of mind.


Who will you walk with if not me? Not me.









2


When I first wrote a song for you,


You were the place where I could forget.


Things have changed; I now run out my days


Trying hard not to remember.


When I first wrote a song for you… those were the days...















3


When I would myself question love’s tendency to fade.


You might say I was self-obsessed.


I would say self-aware; was a difference made?


Now I pile up my days without you, oh…


What a strange sobriety your absence is.


Fantasies of you become my methadone.


In diluted form your presence lives.


For we’re not the same.


(Repeat movement 2)


3 (cont.)


…when I had you pegged, I had the market cornered


On all claim to your fate.


Your were my Eve before the apple


For the serpent to violate.


You were to join me in my fallenness,


But the fall never took place.


Could it be the metaphor was useless?


The habitual condition of the poetic race.


For we’re not the same.

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from Katie and the Church Basement, released June 15, 2014

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The Human Trampoline Toronto, Ontario

"She means we're bouncing into Graceland." -- Paul Simon
"Katie and the Church Basement" is the debut album from this eclectic folk-rock group, bouncing between the stages of Toronto ON. The album moves from the majestic "Prisoner," to the bluesy Mississippi mud of "Hellhounds," to the carefree, uptempo rock of "Sarah Angeline." Come bouncing with them into Graceland. ... more

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