Monarchies

Go on and on about how you walked away

tell me about how you didn t have to stay

I ll listen patiently while all around us you raise monarchies

 

When we were younger you never told me much

Though you knew everything right from the start

You always suggested meaning to me

Later on we raised monarchies

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Baby I don t want to find you here

All alone with your shapes and your colors in another year

You bring them together and raise monarchies 

You bring them together in a believable way

 

Baby I don t want to find you here

Go to Atlanta and give your money to a man

But don t tell him you raise monarchies

Cause if you do he ll wash your feet for you

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If I spent a day in Atlanta I d give my money to a man

To a man who would wash my feet for me

I d tell him I can raise monarchies and he d say he can wash my feet for me

 

If I could save all the world s monarchies from the ravages of time

If that were my gifting, my power find

I d let them fall though they gave me gifts and called me on the phone                                    sometimes

I d let them fall just the same,  I d let them fall just the.................

 

Words-Paul Peterson

Mike Flaherty helped with the guitar