Here’s a song* I wrote for a dear friend – I’m sharing the lyrics with my readers:

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I remember a special reminder

now you’re walking away from me

I was there on that library corner

we had eyes for each other didn’t we.

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Many years pass and then we’re together

holding hands, we’re laughing again.

I remember a special reminder,

my laughter felt real back then.

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You remind me of a time so lovely

your sweet elegance is what makes it happen

Any man would feel loved in your eyes

I know because – that was my when

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I stand now alone in a wander

hoping somehow, someday you might see.

My heart aches, my soul wants to wonder

Someday, somehow we find our sea.

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I remember a special reminder

now you’re walking away from me.

I was there on that library corner

we had eyes for each other didn’t we.

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Hoping somehow, someday you might see,

could we someday find our sea.

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© Thom Amundsen 7/2021

*I attended a song-writing camp last week that might have changed the direction of my life. I’ve wanted to translate my poetry into song for years, and I tasted that at this workshop. Now I have to learn how to play the guitar!

In the actual recording I am borrowing completely from Tom Petty’s instrumental genius on the acoustic guitar.