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© 2001 David Robert Carter (BMI), administered by Tracy Grammer Music

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summer is over and her temples are grey
and i guess you’ll be lookin 'round for somebody new
or maybe you found him and you’re just not sayin
cause he makes you feel the way i used to do

babe, if there’s a better way to love you
show it to me
‘cause i could not live and let you get away
knowin’ there was a better way

out on that highway the mean wind is screamin
and it cuts right through you and the rain bites hard
but i’d walk beside you to share in your dreamin
and while you were sleepin, i’d be standin guard

now babe, if there’s a better way …

well hard roads bust open with bitter words spoken
and hearts can be broken, and dreams undone
but hearts can be mended, and hard words forgotten
and roads return often where they started from

so babe ...

death came to my window in the form of a maiden
and she didn’t say nothin, she just stood and stared
and round about midnight she lay down beside me
but when i awoke, there was nobody there

babe …

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from Little Blue Egg, released February 14, 2012

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Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer Portland, Oregon

American folk duo Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer blend tradition and
innovation into a potent musical elixir. They transcend singer/songwriter stereotypes, delivering evocative, clear-eyed ruminations on death and life, love and ruin, that result in "music of haunting beauty and uncommon intelligence" (The
Oregonian). Carter died in 2002; Grammer curates their legacy and now performs solo. ... more

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