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Picture The Truth
03:08
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I draw a line and picture you
In shades of gray red green and blue.
With everything that’s in the news,
What’s gonna lift you up?
If I could hold you in my arms
While sirens sound out four alarms
For towers burning to the ground
I wouldn’t let you go.
Stay clear and try to keep it together.
Stay here and don’t let it fall apart.
The pictures painted on the wall
Don’t change a thing.
You know some people want to burn it down,
Burn it all to the ground
In their corners for their own defense
This can’t be real, it doesn’t make sense.
This timeline is in such a mess.
Who’s gonna claim the truth?
Stay clear and try to keep it together.
Stay here and don’t let it tear us apart.
If I could hold you in my arms
I wouldn’t let you go.
©2021 Jon Gary. All rights reserved.
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Hey Bluebird
03:56
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You need rain when the sun shines
You need pain when you’re feeling fine
Misery loves company
Run away with me
The bluebird’s song doesn’t change your mood
The mourning dove she sings to you
I hear her every day
Does she sing the truth?
Am I numb, because it never stops?
The world is reeling from the hardest knocks.
To feel it every day
Doesn’t ease the shocks
Let’s go to the lake tonight
And look out for the northern lights
We’ll stare into the sky
For a billion years
The full moon is shining bright
The great expanse has turned to ice
Where great ships sailed
Before we learned to fly
Letting go and falling free
Across the space between you and me
Where we land we’ll never know
When we learn to fly
Letting go and falling free
Across the space between you and me
Where we land we’ll never know
We’ll leave it all behind.
Hey little bluebird, where’d you go?
Fly with me some time.
©2021 Jon Gary. All rights reserved.
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Say Hello
02:44
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I always want to say hello,
even to the people I don’t even know.
Why do I have to say hello?
When you don’t say it back, it lays me low.
Why do I have to say hello?
I don’t know.
I know we’ve met once before,
Two or three times, maybe even four.
Why wouldn’t you say hello?
I don’t know.
No better place to feel alone
than a room full of people staring at their phones,
nobody saying hello.
Say hello.
Awkward is my middle name.
Perhaps you’ve heard me saying something lame.
Perhaps I tried to say hello
Please say hello
Maybe something’s wrong with me?
A bit too connected to the people I meet?
That’s why I want to say hello.
I only want to say hello.
That’s why I want to say hello.
Why do you never say hello?
I only want to say hello.
I only want to say hello.
I guess I’ll go.
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Masked
02:49
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I’ve heard that memories change
Each time one tries to recall.
Now when I think of your face
I’m not sure what I’m seeing
Are you disappearing
Or maybe you’re nowhere at all?
Relations are very strange,
Remaining so far away.
I can barely hear what you’ve said.
Forgive all my swearing,
It’s just that I’m wearing
This mask that gets in my way.
How are you tonight?
Are you feeling alright?
I can’t hear what you say
When you’re standing so far away.
I wish I could spend the night
Out with some good friends of mine
Instead of emptying bottles of wine.
Of course we’re all hoping
That something is open
And all of us are still alive.
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in the circus of the mind,
the barker preaches while you wait in line.
The hawkers sneak up from behind
Bearded women selling valentines
They juggle fire all around.
Trapeze beauties high above the ground.
Tuxedoed monkeys riding bridled hounds,
dazzle ballers from across the town
What do they know about love?
What do they know about love?
They take it, but they can’t feel it anymore.
Why are you hanging around
with those creatures that always bring you down?
They’ll suck the marrow from your bones.
They’ll grind you up and make jelly of your soul.
Pushing their way through the crowd.
Running from the losers that they steered their way around.
They’ll fuck the stars when they get to them.
They’ll make them bleed and claim them as their friend.
What do they know about love?
What do they know about love?
They take it, but they can’t feel it anymore.
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Jon Gary and the Crabapples Rochester, New York
Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Jon Gary performs with Woody Dodge, Kelley’s Heroes, and other musicians in
the Rochester area.
While Crabapples is not performing these days, Jon continues to write and record material on his own.
Drummer Brooks Langkans and bassist Dan Lopata are doing their own things.
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