Seen the Light

from Tucumcari, New Mexico and Other Songs by Billy Wallace and the Virginia Blues

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Won’t you come back home to me? that gentle lover said
We can stay in for two nights, we never even have to leave the bed
For I know your back is weary, I know that troubles haunt your head
But learn to let it go
And she said I will help you rename your pain and I will teach your ballast how to softly sit
She said an anchor is meant to keep you steady, not to drag you down with it
And though your tongue says it’s all copesetic, I look in your eyes and they say you’re full of shit
So learn to let it go
And don’t fight against the tangles but sit still and take heart
For we have seen the light, my love, we ain’t allowed to choose the dark anymore
Sometimes time is a disease and it’s untreatable and it’s tragic
oh, but our bodies are vessels of the purest wild magic
And I know that they hold the cure if we can just tune out the static
and learn to let it go
And not fight against the tangles but sit still and take heart
For we have seen the light, my love, we ain’t allowed to choose the dark
or to kick against those tangles but be still and take heart
For once you’ve seen the light, my love, I don’t believe you are allowed to choose the dark anymore

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from Tucumcari, New Mexico and Other Songs, released November 20, 2012

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