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Winter Coats in Spring

from Second Hand Dress by Shawnee Kilgore

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this is really just a song about loss, and about the world changing around you. even when it's for the better, it's just incredible how absolutely gut-wrenching it can be. when my first longterm relationship was turning right before my eyes into "just friends" it was literally impossible to imagine life on the other side of something that had become so familiar. once you've known someone so intimately it's the hardest thing in the world to accept their freedom to share that intimacy with other people. i found myself afraid that if someone didn't "have" to love me anymore that they wouldn't, and that people would think because we were no longer together that i somehow cared less than i had. i guess that's what it's about :)

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tryin' to be the angel with the blue dress on
i'm tryin' to be the devil in disguise
tryin' to catch a sunset that's long since gone
tryin' to set the stage before it dries

i'm thinking 'bout the time it takes
to raise and lower all the stakes
i can't believe i'm still afloat
i was swimming in my winter coat
this spring

thinking of that one song that said it all
i guess i'm tryin' to say it all again
i guess there's an answer for everything
some days are too beautiful to end

i'm thinking 'bout the time it takes
to find and fix the fine mistakes
we took our time at taking notes
and sometimes we need winter coats
in spring

tryin' to be the angel with her head on straight
still tryin' to be the best you ever had
your hands are touching someone else's skin
why is everything ok except for that

i'm thinking 'bout the time it takes
to heal the wounds that healing makes
the lump is going from my throat
it's too warm for a winter coat
this spring

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from Second Hand Dress, track released April 22, 2009

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"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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