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Wise Woman

from Walnut Street by Julian Cartwright

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Met a wise woman,
my mother’s lawyer’s wife.
I didn’t ask for nothing
but she gave me some advice.
She said,
“How do you expect to talk to Him in the everyday
if He never finds His way into your songs?
First you have to lift your voice, if you want to pray..
You’ve got to lay your burden down.
Is the rooster still crowing, does the cow still moo?
What about the nonbeliever? What about you?”
Wise woman.
I didn’t ask for nothing.

After some time I did
what she wanted me to do.
But the third person seemed
like a crooked point of view.
So I decided to address Him directly:

“She told me you’ll deliver,
though this would be a change,
when I think of how many times
I’ve asked you to to arrange
for me what I’ve always been wanting:
a long life, despite all of the fun things.
I guess I would most appreciate
you making it more clear
what is my fault, and what is not.
Yours sincere,”
... and I sang my way out,
abbreviating something,
of that there is no doubt.

Well, the song wasn’t great,
but I guess it did the trick.
I guess it was the ticket.
And for a short time it seemed
to set everything right, I’ll admit.
I just didn’t want to sing it.
And the reason you can see.
Wise woman,
must be wiser than me.

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from Walnut Street, released August 21, 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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