A Slip of the Pen

from Remember by El Campo

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A slip of the pen, when winter blew in and muddled the letters at my hand. I strove to compose, in tormented prose, a missive to send her, a love letter. A plea for forgiveness. And, when the wind stayed my hand, I'd only just begun to count all the ways regret filled my days, how lying beside her did fan a flame. Like the light on the desk, it danced without rest till smothered by winter--the coldest ever. I'll trade you the way it is for the way it had been. I'm lonesome, cold, and blue. Whatever the ransom is, I would pay every cent pay captive heart to loose. But off on the wind the words I had penned flew, somewhere forgotten, and ever thence. I never again could conjure them hence, till cold reminiscence took my every hour.

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from Remember, released March 17, 2015

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TX folk rock: Charlie, Jerid, Nick & Rudy.

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