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Bainbridge Island

from Ghosts of Dreams by TR Kelley

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The deck of a Washington State Ferry is a great place to be romantically despondent.

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i wrote your name on a wall on Bainbridge Island
near a tavern by the water with a white piece of chalk
the sun shone down on Bainbridge Island
when tears hit the sand they make not a sound

in the sea and the sky i hide from desolation
that is threatening to sink me like a fragile wooden boat
a refuge form the haunting, an island in the space
of the unrelenting yearning that sometimes wears your face

and i hate myself for wanting the things i cannot have
all tangled up and curious like a kitten with a string
am i damned to chase and bound to run this everlasting race
towards mirages of the spirit and a need i can't erase

rain will take your name from Bainbridge Island
tiny dust of white flowing out to sea
clouds ride the wind from the ocean to the desert
touch your face with water and distant love from me

someday we will meet again
its a line that's been sung untold broken times
strange how underneath it all our stories are the same
and this wall becomes the altar for the wishes and the names

i tossed a ring of silver form the ferry to the sea
sinking through the greenness it slowly fell away
facing east i wish for peace to all i could survey
and strength to fill the spaces
of the love i gave away

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from Ghosts of Dreams, released July 1, 1997
TR Kelley - acoustic guitar, vocals
Debbie Diedrich - piano

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This pre-Raventones page has music from TR's 1990s acoustic years, which ran concurrently with here time in Babes With Axes (also available here on bandcamp)

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