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Few Little Lines

from Not About Nightingales by Eric George

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lyrics

If in the end the ties are broken
And blood like Ludlow's flow again
Tell the world to weep not for
The letters never sent

Sing the songs you wrote for your child
Who spends her time in the willows
The pages folded edges bent
The letters never sent

For the letters never sent
Let's try to hold friends of old
Dearly in our hearts and sing

I'll write just a few little lines
I've no fine hand but it's fine
Cause the time that we spent
Love was better than the letters never sent

Rain like age it floods and grows
A passing storm of beauty's youth
And the clouds of endless song
One day roll along

But all the things that were never said
That danced upon the edge of words
Find a home in what they meant
In letters never sent

For the river never she writes
To the sea but endlessly flows on while we

We sing I'll write just a few little lines
I've no fine hand but it's fine
Cause the time that we spent
Love was better than the letters never

Tethered like a stone thrown in the ocean
To the weight of the days we spent
Tell me love was better than the
Letters never sent

Hold fast the flowers fade
And roads are made out of the glade
So sing no soft lament
For the letters never sent

For the letters never sent
Let's try to hold friends of old
Dearly in our hearts and sing

I'll write just a few little lines
I've no fine hand but it's fine
Cause the time that we spent
Love was better than the letters
Better than the letters...

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from Not About Nightingales, released August 23, 2017

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Eric George Burlington, Vermont

Eric George is a Vermont-based songwriter, sound engineer, and performer of original music and poetry. One of the most prolific folk musicians of the Northeast music scene, he is intent upon maintaining the integrity of American folk music while taking a contemporary approach to songwriting. ... more

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