Three Portraits

from riverrun by Jeff Symonds

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Caroline I just seem to fade away
Caroline I just don’t know what to say
You made me feel so good and
I really wish you would just
Pick up the phone sometime and give me a call
Anytime at all
Caroline I just don’t know what to do
Maybe it’s just a phase I’m going through
Sometimes life is unkind and
I just want peace of mind but
I gotta say to you that
With you so concealed, I don’t know what to feel
Caroline, I thought I would do so much
And now I waste my life
Being a photograph, a frozen smile
Practiced in black and white
Well I know I’m lonely
And it may be only me
But could you help me understand
Caroline, there is so much left to fear
God, Caroline I wish that you were here
I don’t know what to think and
I drag a chain with my own links and
With each passing day my
Memory starts to fade
Wonder where you’re today
Caroline, even Earhart wished that
Someone could have been good enough for the ride
And that was never me
I traded that for empty, foolish pride
Well I know I’m lonely
And it may be only me
But could you help me understand
Understand

Laurie sits on her front porch but she won’t say nothin’
Mama brings her lemonade and thinks that Laurie’s bluffin’
She says get up off of that seat and do something for yourself
But Laurie’s life is shattered,
he’s in love with someone else
She took the things he gave her and threw them all away
Still she can’t believe
that he is gone to stay
Hears their six-month old baby crying upstairs
But since he left
it’s been harder to care
Laurie
And I don’t know where she is now
I hope she made it out of there somehow
Mama rubs her temples and leans against the table
She never thought she’d raise someone disabled
She’d pay a ransom for a future not so bleak
While Laurie just sits there listening to that porch swing creak
Laurie

Emily says that she is over him and ready for a change
Emily says that she is nervous and she’s starting to feel strange
Emily texts and calls it love and then never writes at all
Emily says she needs to talk to me and then forgets to call
But I don’t mind I don’t mind
I don’t mind
Emily’s boyfriend always shows up when I try and take her home
Emily’s boyfriend tells me nicely they just need some time alone
Emily smiles and she says don’t worry, this’ll only take a few
I waited for her to come home until a quarter after two
But I don’t mind I don’t mind
I don’t mind, oh Emily
Emily
Emily knows she’s reached the end of my fraying nerves and rope
Emily begs me to be patient cause it’s very hard to cope
With saying goodbye to someone who’s needed her for all these years
Emily says she is so bad at decisions,
she has fears
But I don’t mind
I don’t mind
Oh, Emily, you gotta make up your mind Emily
Emily

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from riverrun, released December 18, 2020
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