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I Made You a Promise

from A Long and Precious Road by Shawnee Kilgore

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i was the one with that look on my face
as if every last breath was a prayer i could trace
you know i’m just a poet and i’ll be all right
‘cause it’s three in the morning and i saw you tonight

it’s three in the morning as it always is
when all the best hearts are home feeling like this
and i’ll make up my bed with the warmth of your smile
and i know that it’s late but i’ll play for a while

‘cause i made you a promise that you never heard
i don’t know what it meant but i meant every word
i just know how it happened not how it should be
and i’ll wake to the sun and thank god

you were the one with that look in your eye
as if every last breath was a reason to fly
i gave you my blessing and you gave me your name
spelled just like the spanish and mine like the plains

and i took one more drink and you played one more song
and a jar full of moonshine well it ain’t full for long
and the warm air is laughing i wish that i knew
how it felt to be there in the space next to you

‘cause i made you a promise that only you heard
and i wrote you the song but you know every word
I just know how it happened that’s all we can see
and i’ll wake to the sun and thank god you saw me

so i might come to find you with a song on my lips
and truth on my tongue when it finally slips
i guess i’m just a poet and i’ll be all right
‘cause it’s three in the morning and i saw you tonight

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from A Long and Precious Road, released August 18, 2015
Shawnee — acoustic guitar, vocal
Mike Meadows — drums
Andrew Pressman — upright bass
Mark Hallman — accordion
Matt the Electrician — vocal, horn

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Shawnee Kilgore Austin, Texas

"Shawnee Kilgore is to music as velvet gloves are to diamond cutters,” wrote James Hardesty, owner of the Green Frog Acoustic Tavern in Bellingham, WA. “She holds all this beauty in her hand, raw and untouched, then she chips away until it gleams in the light, holding on with a soft gentleness that she has perfected." ... more

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