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Once I Knew, Then I Forgot

from Kettle States by isle of pine

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lyrics

baby, i bet you like my melody
sure you can sing around me
but you can’t write poetry

baby, you got a heart of gold now
and a stomach full of wristwatches
and a mind too

and a mind too,
a mind to sell it all now
to a chorus of screen-watching
punks and pornwatchers

honey, your body’s selling water
and even though its getting hotter
i put out buckets for the rain

someone, someone’s trading youth for you now
someone’s trading you for you now
for those flecks of green in your eyes

and I’m gone, gone
gone, gone, gone

honey, you wish you were a planet
or else just a little famous
just looking at the stars won’t do

lately, you’ve been calling on me steady
and staying up too late
drinking homemade tonic and red wine

baby, you’re trading youth for you now
you’re trading you for you now
and you’re wasting your damn time

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from Kettle States, track released January 1, 2011

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