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Anna and Allen

from The Age Of Crying by Julian Cartwright

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You tell me your past, I’ll tell you mine.
You'll confess to a first love frozen in time.
That was in the very beginning.
Then I was at a wedding with a bunch of people yelling
“Anna and Allen”
I can’t tell what really happened,
if the world’s changed the love around me,
but the sentiment I had never stopped sounding
just like :
“Oh what I would give to have that love,
I would like to have that love to give.”
Now, and for the last time, tonight,
like every night, you die,
and you’re only seen to sigh.

But if there’s a secret you could whisper in my ear,
I’d speak it to people who disappear.
If there’s a secret you could whisper in my ear,
I’d speak it to people who disappear.

On the dream plane, those whom your mind sees--
Those friends who you wish would appear in your memories,
are attempting to lengthen the picnics.
Then you’re in the dark, and where are all your friends?
Why on earth have you visualized that and not them?
Quite despite yourself, you’re looking high and low,
yelling, “Just where did all my good friends hide and go?”
If ever Amen, Amen.

Around the time that Allen drives to the liquor store,
you ask him if there will be more,
or....
His love was just blarney, blarney and bad jokes,
And never mind yourself, where did the time go?
Just where oh where did all the stupid time go?
Cause there’s no time for love anymore.

“Oh what I would give to have that love,
I would like to have that love to give,”
Now, and for the last time, tonight,
like every night, you die,
but you’re only seen to get high.

But if there’s a secret you could whisper in my ear,
I’d speak it to people who disappear.
If there’s a secret you could whisper in my ear,
I’d speak it to people who disappear.

I’m writing a letter now
composed of only things that I know,
so that you know,
before you go, my dear.

And if there’s a secret you could whisper in my ear,
I’d speak it to people who disappear.
if there’s a secret you could whisper in my ear,
I’d speak it to people who disappear.

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from The Age Of Crying, released March 24, 2015

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Julian Cartwright is a songwriter, instrumentalist, composer and arranger based in the Philadelphia area. Instagram @julian.cartwright.songs

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