Lucinda Williams

Copenhagen

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Thundering news hits me like a snowball
Struck in my face and shattering
Covering me in a fine powder and mist
And mixing in with my tears

And I'm fifty seven but I could be seven years old,
Cos I will never be able
To comprehend the expansiveness
Of what I've just learned

But you, have disappeared
You have been released
You are flecks of light
You are missed

Somewhere, spinning round the sun
Circling the moon
Traveling through time
You are missed

Walking through unfamiliar streets
And I'm shaking unfamiliar hands
And I'm hearing unfamiliar laughs
And lovely language I don't understand

It's late October in Copenhagen
The skies are grey, the snow is falling
I see my breath outside, I'm freezing
I'm motionless, I'm disbelieving

But you, have disappeared
You have been released
You are flecks of light
You are missed

Somewhere, spinning round the sun
Circling the moon
Traveling through time
You are missed

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by Viking23

11y ago

This song broke my heart so much when I first heard it that I refused to listen to it again for a year. It's about someone dying far away from the narrator, who loves them very, very much. The whole thing sounds rather wistful, like she wished she could say goodbye. The one ray of hope is that the person is now in a better place (somewhere spinning 'round the sun, circling the moon). So beautiful.

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by sdz896542

10y ago

comforting tune about how it is to come to grips with an unsolveable problem

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