Learning to Read

from Kintsukuroi by The Busy Nothing

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No one waits when the weather stops but the bluebirds in the north
But I could wait for the girl that comes when the summer is gone…

No one wants to write a hymn tune, for the time that we were sad,
But I could wait for the melodies to fall from the pouring sky…

If you could read a man, you would know I’m just afraid,
Too afraid to tell you why I’m hard to read.

No one would leave a perfect home, with just a few things out of touch,
But I could wait for the story I was promised when I was young…

No one with a brain would have waited for Spring, when Winter had just begun,
But I could wait for the girl that comes when the summer is gone…

Oh I know a place where the grass it grows high on the falls
Set back a ways in my mind where I could only crawl

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from Kintsukuroi, released May 27, 2016

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The Busy Nothing Mansfield, Ohio

The Busy Nothing is an indie-folk project based in Ohio. Original collaborators include Sean Byrne, Bennett Coltman, and Christian Watson. Watson, a singer-songwriter currently living in Mansfield, Ohio, continues to write and compose under the pseudonym as a solo musician. The band's name is a reference to a 1949 folk tune by Bing Crosby. ... more

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