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Lightweight

from Junebug by Jon Charles Dwyer

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Wrote this for my dear boy Jib Brooks

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We sat in a basement crying,
Cold concrete and spray paint walls.
Smoked cigarettes, you didn't need to have one.
No gods to break our fall.
Please don't leave me all alone.

Outside the snow stuck like diamonds.
Like some fortune we'd never name.
How much can you lose till you're nothing?
Buried bouquets and prayed for rain.
Buried bouquets and prayed for rain.

We sat with your mother to break bread.
Last few months she wasn't doing too well.
She told me she loved my singing.
In the hospital she sang along.
In the hospital you sang along.

Some days that thought never leaves me.
What have I done to deserve?
Truest love like a spark in a matchbox.
Some days all I do is burn.
Some days all I do is burn.

Hey man, I been meaning to ask you.
God knows I've been meaning to say:
How's the spring? I see that it found you.
Did you see that it found me too?

Hey man, I been meaning to tell you.
God knows I've been meaning to say:
There's no page I'd rip from my memory,
There's nothing I didn't mean to say.

Hey man, I've been meaning to tell you.
God knows I've been meaning to say:
So much of myself feels so heavy
and you are the lightest weight.

You are the lightest weight
You are the lightest weight
You've been the lightest weight
You are the lightest weight to me

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from Junebug, track released January 29, 2021

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Jon Charles Dwyer Asheville, North Carolina

Jon Charles Dwyer's songs embody the spirit of the Appalachian mountains he is married to: all poverty stricken loss and desire set against the backdrop of the most beautiful springtime of love and fresh hope tumbling over those hills and down to the valleys below. ... more

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