"Vienna Teng - Recessional"
This is the 49th in a series of sad songs I've compiled, and it is accompanied by a video I've made featuring the "Recessional" lyrics and pictures of Vienna Teng.
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Lyrics:
"It's so beautiful here", she says
This moment now
And this moment now
And I never thought I would find her here
Flannel and satin
My four walls transformed
But she's looking at me
Straight to center
No room at all for any other thought
And I know I don't want this
Oh I swear I don't want this
There's a reason not to want this
But I forgot
In the terminal she sleeps on my shoulder
Hair falling forward
Mouth all askew
Fluorescent announcements beat their wings overhead
Passengers missing
We're looking for you
And she dreams through the noise
Her weight against me
Face pressed into the corduroy grooves
Maybe it means nothing
Maybe it means nothing
Maybe it means nothing
But I'm afraid to move
And the words, they're everything and nothing
I want to search for her in the offhand remarks
Who are you, taking coffee, no sugar?
Who are you, echoing street signs?
Who are you, the stranger in the shell of a lover?
Dark curtains drawn by the passage of time
Oh words like rain, how sweet the sound
"Well anyway", she says, "I'll see you around"