Today Leaves
-written by Jeremy Gloff
-appears on Jeremy Gloff (1998)
THE STORY:
After a tedious winter I opened my windows let in spring. As the trees turned green I wrote this upbeat and bittersweet memoir of the unrequited first love.
THE LYRICS:
The buds are turning into leaves
"I was just a baby"
When I'm fifty I'll say
I hope I learn to breathe along the way
He's pretty much forgotten
The craving's gone away
Smells like Ryan outside
Today.
THE STORY:
After a tedious winter I opened my windows let in spring. As the trees turned green I wrote this upbeat and bittersweet memoir of the unrequited first love.
THE LYRICS:
My first love wasn't true love
Just a fascination to me
Like Cinderella does to five
Like dying does to eighty-five
It took up every moment I'd breathe
He's been a stranger for four years
The madman didn't act nineteen
Driving by his house
Each and every night
Just to remind him that I'd breathe
He knew I was crazy
Before me
My face ashes
And my legs are wrinkling
Well I stopped living my life
Like I was in a video game
I wish there was an on and off switch
To my brain
The buds are turning into leaves
"I was just a baby"
When I'm fifty I'll say
I hope I learn to breathe along the way
He's pretty much forgotten
The craving's gone away
Smells like Ryan outside
Today.