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20170617 - Easy Come, Easy Go

from The Song Diary II by Paleo

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lyrics

She collected feathers, because she was once told
that a feather on the ground is a word you don’t know.
And if she found enough of them, he said he’d fashion her wings,
and she could leave to live with him in Chicago.

Easy come, easy go.
Easier said than done, I know.
Easy come, easy go.

Coiling the cord around her arm, looking at the rain on the window,
spinning a quarter on the table while talking on the phone,
she would sing these little songs to him. And through the wall
and door and down the hall, we all hung on every note.

Easy come, easy go.
Easier said than done, I know.
Easy come, easy go.

Hers was one of those that made us all once more believe,
like a hole in a tin lid so captured butterflies can breathe.
But it all ended up hollow as last year’s cocoons.
They’re fragile and won’t last long unless you set them free.

Easy come, easy go.
Easier said than done, I know.
Easy come, easy go.

I found this little Guadalupe statue at the store
for a dollar, and the glow-in-the-dark one just a dollar more,
and I didn’t want to bother her, things being what they were,
but when I moved out before I left I put it by her door.

Easy come, easy go.
Easier said than done, I know.
Easy come, easy go.
Easy come, easy go.
Easy come, easy go.

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from The Song Diary II, released April 15, 2018

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