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Ripples (draft 2 with accordion)

by Colette Bone

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A grieving friend recently inspired this. He was feeling the void of a deceased loved one, I could tell he thought she was totally gone. I wanted to let him know that she is so close, in some ways still.
This song is about the night I was hanging out with Tim and Dan, 16 years ago. We were on the back deck, smoking and looking up at the night sky. Then I stealed away to my recently-deceased Mom's keyboard to play some Chopin, and the notes were so beautiful that I knew they would have touched her as deeply as they touched me. And I only wanted to share those strange and ridiculous chords with her & her weird dancing she would do while playing our piano. At that moment her loss hit me with such gravity that I descended so far down, and stayed there sobbing - drowning & not even trying to stop drowning...
then felt a strange otherworldly hug help pull me out. That hug had no sensation I could describe with our five bodily senses.
And from that moment on, I knew that no one is ever truly gone, nor are we ever alone.

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Smoke signals up to the sky
Just hangin out with the guys
Stealing a moment away
Turned on your keyboard and played

Dropping down into a song
Missings of you came along
Waves pulled my head down to sob
Swept out to sea for a bob...

Could not not let myself go
to the great undertow

..sometimes NO such thing anymore
as what was the day before
like Swimming and skies and shores
or tomorrows as good as before

Head bobbing down at the keys
from behind something swooped in
something so light hugging me
weightless and warm and so peaceful

Don't think her spirit's too cold
Don't think her spirit's too old
Ripples are left to unfold
Echoes still wait to get told

My angel lifeguard that day
left with me something that stays
echoes in close-ed eyed hugs
trav'ling at light speeds of love

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released February 27, 2017

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