John Prine

from We Should Be Asleep by Now by Parc de Sceaux

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"I've never heard a John Prine song"
He tells his mother-in-law to be
"Aren't you supposed to write about music"
She replies gently
"He's the only thing
That still makes us feel like a family"
He has never heard a John Prine song
Now his fiancee is looking at him funny

She gave him two songs to listen
One about loss, one about old age
They played the first one at her father's funeral
He sang it himself at their daughter's birth
And then again at their daughter's funeral

He likes the second one too
"I had never heard any of your songs"
He tells John Prine
"But now I carry them with me all the time"

The old singer listen to his story
Before telling his own
Of love lost, a bad divorce
Of love found, a life well-lived
And it doesn't matter if those are different stories
'Cause the song remains the same
And for his son birth, he chose John Prine again

But I've never heard a John Prine song

Maybe I've not lost enough
I'm sure as Hell I've loved enough
And I'm not dead yet, or old yet
But my bones feel like sand
My body is an island
I reach across the ocean
Metaphores fail me
I think I'll just try to listen
To see if everthing's ok, if everything's cool
If everthing's ok, if everything's cool

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from We Should Be Asleep by Now, released June 15, 2020

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