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Snow on the Waves

from Snow on the Waves by Meghan Hayes

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lyrics

It’s the only day of summer that I got
When the cars are slow and the lines are hot.
Now the rain is gone away, it’s only me that’s left today.

I prayed to God to be alone.
Now that I am up and grown,
The people who are gone for fear keep saying things I don’t want to hear.

You won’t tell me it’s not too late (to make a start).
You don’t come around trying to placate me (and my broken heart).
You block my sun more than you elate me.
You’re snow on the waves.

Now I close up at night when the flowers won’t bloom.
During the day ghosts take my room.
Some folks say the dead are never gone—that’s why I leave the TV on.

You and I were the village shade
All rain and no parade.
Would you take that safe sadness now, if I could only get it back somehow?

You won’t tell me it’s not too late (to make a start).
You’re no stranger to dreams that deflate (and fall apart).
Each word I say is up for debate with you baby.
You’re snow on the waves.

Some nights when the stars are low
I search the water for something I might once have known.
Past the rocks and rents that keep us home
There’s snow on the waves.

I don’t even need a trigger on my gun.
I knock these hours down one by one.
My nights are filled with western wind, days are spent for next of kin.

Been dancing with a candle at my back.
Believe me, honey, it’s not truth I lack.
Of the millions who could have been the one, You’re just the latest whose story came undone.

Still, you won’t tell me it’s not too late (to make a start).
You’ve been known to stand at the gate (when I depart).
You laugh at the mention of fate.
You’re snow on the waves.

credits

from Snow on the Waves, released January 1, 2000
Meghan Hayes: guitar, vocals
David McKittrick: acoustic and mystery guitars
Tim Smith: bass
Rich Hayes: drums, percussion
Shyam Telikicherla: piano
John Jennings: electric guitars

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Meghan Hayes Nashville, Tennessee

Meghan Hayes is a singer-songwriter, Nurse Practitioner and landscape designer living in Nashville, TN. Her most recent record, Seen Enough Leavers, is a bruising post-divorce document of pain, anxiety and loss, that has been lauded as “one of the best Americana albums in recent history.” Hayes is currently interviewing producers for her next record. ... more

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