Won't You Take Me to New England?

from Not So Much a Sin as a Mistake by Andy Jones

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Won't you take me to New England? I've been stuck in here
a long, long, long time--living quiet in this little room--
scared to walk around at dusk or dawn. Because my life
is a landfill with filth that covers every trace of my place,
and if you look around the carpeting, you can't hardly see a space.
But I love everything--yes, when I think about it, I love everything,
and I don't want to die.

At twenty-seven, I'm an old man. My hair is turning gray in strands--
thick, long bands. February is the darkest month I know, and one day
I won't even stand. She said my eyes were soft and pretty,
she said that they would even glow, were I to grow, but I don't think
that she would say that now--to her my eyes must be two coals.
But I love everything--yes, when I think about it, I love everything,
and I don't want to die.

When we get to Maine, I know that things might be the same,
but maybe not. To me, it seems the endless greens could do nothing
but fill my heart with songs and laughs, and I've seen the photographs.

I think the first thing when I get there, I'll drink a vat of Concord wine,
beneath the pines. Then I'll climb up every lighthouse to sit and watch
the foamy tide. We could tour all the orchards, and if I drown in
all the juice and seeds and stems, then I can declare a holiday,
and then I might sincerely say that I love everything--yes when I think
about it, I love everything, and I don't want to die.

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from Not So Much a Sin as a Mistake, released July 20, 2014
Written by Andy Jones
Guitar and vocals by Andy Jones
Viola arranged and performed by Stephen Lang

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