just a song...

the lyrics...

Spring Street, by Dar Williams:

Im sorry that I left you

With your questions all alone

But I was too happy driving

And too angry to drive home

I was thinking about the easy courage

Of my distant friends

They said I could let this bridge wash out

And never make amends

Can I blow this small town

Make a big soundLike the star of a film noir postcard

Can I just forget the frames I shared with you

And I cant believe what theyre saying

Theyre saying I can change my mind

Start over on spring street

I'm welcome anytime

Well there are spring street storefront daisies

Floating on their neon stems

There are new shirts on the clothes racks

Should I feel like one of them

I can find a small apartment

Where a struggling artist died

And pretend because I pay the rent

I know that pain inside

Yeah, lets watch the tour bus stop and tell us

Heres the scene of a spring green life dream

Take the best part

Write it in your caffeine diary

And I cant believe what theyre saying

Theyre saying I can leave tonight

Start over on spring street

Im welcome anytime

This year april had a blizzard

Just to show she did not care

And the new dead leaves

They made the trees look like children with gray hair

But Ill push myself up through the dirt

And shake my petals free

Im resolved to being born

And so resigned to bravery

Yeah the one who leaves this also grieves this

Too much rain on a prairie flood plain

Houses floating, love is like that

We built on the river

And thats to say, yeah Im leaving

But I dont have to go there

I dont have to go to spring street

cause its spring everywhere