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Now Was Too Long Ago

There might be a should've, could've, would've
To everything we've done.
Oh, babe, you know it's still on.
There might be a truly simple answer
To every question that perplexes us.
Oh, babe, think what you must?
Now was too long ago to stay here.
Our love, in my memory, is still clear.
I can go ahead and skip that stone across time;
But that won't make you mine.

There might be a moment too narrow
For any other one to get through;
Ah, not right now. The sky's too blue.
There might be an answer too fitting
(For our minds, they would grow out of it.)
Oh, babe, no one want's to say it.
Now was too long ago to mention that
Yesterday's all the time, in seconds flat.
I could go all around the world, at the speed of light,
I'd just end up right here, right now.

Sometimes I wish I could go to the past.
Maybe I could change the course of the trail of tears
That flows as surely as a river to the sea,
To a future that nobody here has touched,
A new history.

A heart is a moment within a moment,
Of a painting that lives
Between a canvas and a dream.
My thoughts are all potent with potential poems
To people that won't hear them,
Unless I step right up and sing.
Now was too long ago to imagine this.
The smoking gun's plume is the elephant in the room.
Well, I'm here to call it out.
Let me be your human shield.
We're almost immortal now.

The wind is the breath of a timeless hour
That swirls ov'r the sky, a-spiraling,
Holding the echoes of our thoughts.
Van Gough should have been less hard on himself.
He was always destined to be great.
Oh, babe, and you know it's too late.
Now was too long ago to change what happened.
The universe has simply moved on.
It won't give us another chance; no, not this time.
I wish I would have done something then.
Now was too long ago.

[ early draft . . . ]

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from The Talk of the Town (2016) [2xLP] {Telegrammar Records}, released August 16, 2016

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Jim Byron Minneapolis, Minnesota

U.S. alternative musician, songwriter, and producer. Has released over 30 albums since moving to Minneapolis in 2015. Genre- fluid. Mentored by two poet laureates of major cities: Jack Hirschman of San Francisco, and the late Barry Spacks of Santa Barbara. Also mentored by the mythic Baby Gramps, who once toured as Bob Dylan's personal backstage entertainment. ... more

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