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Dresser Drawer Lyrics
The phone rings
And I don't care who it is that is calling
You moved our things from ours to his
While outside the snow is falling
The wedding band that meant so much
Signified our blessed vow
Like coffee spills and unpaid bills and all my pills
It's in a dusty dresser drawer now
I watched these trees from green to brown
Suddenly this small town has gotten smaller
The arctic breeze it sings to me, and says now look
Any fool can go out and walk on water
I shoulda known that time alone
Would only serve to break you down
Don't know why I sit and stare at that damn thing sitting there
In a dusty dresser drawer now
Snow has turned to water
To please the trees
And cheer up that late bloomer
While I'm sipping on a beer counting down another year
Couldn't come a second sooner
I wonder how easily that ring it slid off of your finger
Did you stop for a moment
Let the memory of us linger
Or was it just an afterthought
Like casting water from a bow
I'm past the point of crying
For a love that lies there dying
In a dusty dresser drawer now
It's such a goddamn shame
Right next to your picture frame
In a dusty dresser drawer now
If anybody asks me what I think, that love is for now, I'll tell them
Look in a dusty dresser drawer now
And I don't care who it is that is calling
You moved our things from ours to his
While outside the snow is falling
Signified our blessed vow
Like coffee spills and unpaid bills and all my pills
It's in a dusty dresser drawer now
Suddenly this small town has gotten smaller
The arctic breeze it sings to me, and says now look
Any fool can go out and walk on water
Would only serve to break you down
Don't know why I sit and stare at that damn thing sitting there
In a dusty dresser drawer now
To please the trees
And cheer up that late bloomer
While I'm sipping on a beer counting down another year
Couldn't come a second sooner
Did you stop for a moment
Let the memory of us linger
Like casting water from a bow
I'm past the point of crying
For a love that lies there dying
In a dusty dresser drawer now
Right next to your picture frame
In a dusty dresser drawer now
If anybody asks me what I think, that love is for now, I'll tell them
Look in a dusty dresser drawer now
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This is a straightforward song. Amos in concert has said that he wrote this song for a friend in San Francisco whose was left by his wife for another man. It outlines how the situation came to be and how it stays there. The song was inspired by a photo of the wedding ring in an empty drawer. The good news is that the next photo sent sometime later was the ring next to a box of prophylactics.