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Jessica's Song

from How Good We Had It by Goner

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You were your father’s blood and he covered you in fingerprints, called you stupid and plain, caressing all the same. You’d smell the Jim Beam as he’d lean at the side of your bed, tickling your sleeve. You were living just to leave. You kept your eyes on your sticker stars, glowing in the dark. You would’ve wished on them, if only they’d been real. 21 and bellying up a couple of states away, them angel tattoos you got sure can cover up an awful lot. But you’re showing so much of the flesh you’ve been taught to hate, and as the crowd swells and thins, you toss a Romeo a grin. And with voices sweet as nicotine, you talk and he says, “Yeah, I know what you mean.” A year’s worth of 2AMs ending the same way. Let’s dim the lights and hit play, touch and sway. Classic rock radio alarms. Someone slips out of someone’s arms. Head like a heart, beating thick and slow, barely time to sort out all those clothes. He’s gonna call, I know. Jessica, you know that playground a couple of blocks away? Grab a wrench, a bat and a knife. Meet your friends out there tonight. We’ll tear the monkey bars down, crack the benches, rip the swings to shreds. We’ll derail the merry-go-round. We can cry as it goes down. Splintered hands will pass around the wine, pretty rubble in the blue moonshine. Come 2AM, you’ll leave your father’s blood behind. Leave it all behind.

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from How Good We Had It, released October 1, 2004

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Goner crafts great songs, combining a poetic eye for detail, a cinematic sense of place and character, and an encyclopedic love of rocks both classic and indie.

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