Salt Year-Chris Bathgate

[ti:Salt Year] [ar:Chris Bathgate] [al:Wait, Skeleton.] [offset:0] [00:00.99]Salt Year - Chris Bathgate [00:33.13]Seventeen years before, [00:36.87] [00:37.43]I should have hauled off and kissed her [00:41.47] [00:42.09]Now I lace my wine with ginger, [00:46.33]Just let my evenings pass [00:49.18] [00:49.74]They pass, they pass, they pass, and they pass [00:56.05] [00:58.29]She is whistling in a candy store, [01:02.29]And I’m just screaming in the dark here [01:06.59]I’m just choking down a salt year [01:10.77]When sugars all I”ve longed for, [01:14.84]All I’ve longed for, all I’ve longed for [01:19.27] [01:28.38]Try again [01:32.63] [01:37.24]Try again [01:41.57] [01:46.00]Try again [01:50.24] [01:54.86]Try again [01:59.54] [02:53.23]Seventeen and there she stood, a photograph in my doorway [03:01.71] [03:02.40]And I felt all my light leave me, my thoughts all tumbling under [03:11.07]Tumbling under, tumbling under [03:15.50] [03:22.74]After then my days resigned, to static and gray hair in soft cry [03:30.92] [03:31.48]Like a cracked crystal second hand wind chime [03:35.91]Just clanging for a lover, [03:39.59]For a lover, for a lover [03:43.96] [03:51.20]I can lover... [04:24.99]