Sweetness from 50 Songs by Shane Cooley

Sweetness

Ten bags of groceries
One car key
Four tires getting old and bald
She’s going back to hear apartment
That’s when her lover calls

Seven years ago today
She had a brand new start
And I feel just like that old car
Up for sale

If it were in a different wind
That she were blowing in
She would be a little closer to the riverbend
Where I spend my days

Sweetness I am delirious

I reach out for her with five fingers
A six-gun at my hip
Ready to defend or surrender
Still can’t get a grip
Still can’t get a grip

Sweetness can’t you see
How delirious I’ve become
Sweetness is this really what you want

Ten times over
Twice as thick
Bleak mid-winter I’m a million twigs
Scattered in her backyard

Her apartment’s built of a thousand bricks
Doubled-over I’m the concrete mix
Crawling up her walls

Sweetness can’t you see
How delirious I’ve become
Sweetness
Be serious for once

Sweetness can’t you see
How delirious I’ve become
Sweetness
Be serious for once

Three long months turn into four
Four long days until I get bored of the thought
And then I dream again

But for just once
I would like to get this off my chest
Can’t you see how my own two eyes
Must undress you

Sweetness can’t you see
How delirious I’ve become
Sweetness
Is this really what you want

Sweetness can’t you see
How delirious I’ve become
Sweetness
Is this really what you want

• Acoustic
• Americana
• folk
• folk-rock
• rock
• singer-songwriter
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