Spider Song from Belly by Erica Freas

Twisting and grasping and I cannot find her / first it was her body, last night was her web. / Glistening gossamer stretched from my pillow where I'd laid my head / now I stretch my mind trying to find what she said. / I wake and it's all faded away / and in the daytime I'm left to figure it out on my own. / Someone tried to teach me to never say "never." / It's so funny I never saw that one again. / I'm sure they're still somewhere deep down in the dirt in the back of my head, / they just never call me it's not like they're dead. / You can love someone and just not stay friends. / Wake one day and it's all faded away / and in the daytime I know I've faded plenty on my own. / And you used to tell me how you'd live forever / it's okay that's not what you tell me anymore. / I used to imagine that you'd disappear as I became a crone... / either way I'd lose track of your flesh and your bone. / I'd try not to be scared as I walked on alone. / Wake one day and it's all faded away / and in the daytime I know I've learned how to walk on my own. / I wake and it's all faded away / and in the daytime I know I've woven a web of my own.

• Folk
• acoustic
• indie folk
• indie pop
• singer-songwriter
• songwriter
• Olympia