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In the Weeds

from Adorcism by Ryan M. Brewer

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I wrote a letter to a guy I knew in high school.
I never liked him much - now ain't no better.
I needed a favor from a figure with some pull - needed it kept a long way off the record.

Her daddy bought her that civic for school.
She wandered off with some ill-mannered fool.
He took it back, there it sat, gathering dust... fighting rust in the weeds.

I had a buddy with a shop over in Deming.
He don't get out much, but he's a sucker for a sip.
I took a bottle and pinch of something green - had him show a thing or two he won't remember teaching me.

Patient austerity's the name of the game.
Wait until her daddy and the sun go away.
Snuck around back, there I sat splicing wires...sparking fires in the weeds.

Do you remember that playlist I made for when we tied the knot?
We never made it, did we?
35 songs in 7 years strong.
Yeah, I was picky but it meant something to me.

I let it play all the way to the coast.
755 miles all alone.
Five and a half times I played through all of the songs now the writing's on the wall.

You looked so small.
The speed-bumps did no good at all.
I failed to yield 'til you hit the windshield.

I took to steering with my left hand.
My right is shaking - can't take the getaway speed out on the highway headed west.
And the cracks on the windshield are spreading like weeds.

I see your face in the weeds.

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from Adorcism, released April 25, 2017
Written and performed by Ryan M. Brewer

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Ryan M. Brewer Alexandria, Indiana

A singer/songwriter by trade, Ryan M. Brewer is more accurately described as a traveling musical storyteller. Having always placed the primary importance on lyricism, his songs tend to float effortlessly between genres...each one falling precisely where it needs to in order to most accurately tell the story. And that's all that matters - songs and stories. ... more

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