Jen Cass: Music
Vagabond Heart
As I write this song
It’s your wedding day miles away
Some little Mexican town
You’ll walk down the aisle
With your heartbreaking smile
And you’ll tell her “I do.”
But you won’t
You’re half a world away
Wishing chances were free
That time could spin backwards
And bring you to me
But the window you opened
I boarded up tight
The last time you gave up my love
With no fight and were gone
But there was a time
I believed I would, wanted to
Prayed I would die in your arms
You shared my soul
As the poets write, overnight
You changed your heart and were gone
So I’ve heard your promises spoken
Broken in fear
The beat of your heart
Like a drum in my ears
And the sound of your voice
In a long-distance plea
You’ll never love her
The way you loved me
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And your heart knows
What you tried to forget
You’re alone
You are not over me yet
And the love that you’ve lost
Is the deepest regret that you’ve known
You’ll carry that home
I’ve seen your face
In a thousand dreams
In-between sunset and dawn
You are mine
You hear my voice
And it leaves you no choice
But to cross through the oceans of time
You return windblown and weary
From places unknown
To drink of the wine
Of the one you disowned
And I welcome you fully
Each time you return
A moth to the flame of the
Bridges you burn
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Years they go by
Still your memory calls to me
You with your vagabond heart
Gave away love like a calling card
Falling hard, finally falling apart
You drank down love like elixir
To pleasure the pain
A treasure of moments
Connected by chains
That you wove into armor
And wore on your sleeve
‘Til you could make good
On your promise to leave
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