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from The Great Giving Up by Ian Miles

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I found a house where no one lives
and spent an hour chipping paint from it's walls
trying to figure out where the family had gone
but there was no trace at all.

The furniture smelled like old cigarette ash
and there was newspaper piled as high as a three-year-old
whose name I couldn't read but I watched him grow
by the marks I found on the door

The creaking doors sing their eulogies
to a time who knows how long ago
when their knobs would turn with surprise
over a mat that read, 'welcome home.'

The kitchen sink was filled with leaves
That fell from the once-tended plants that hung above
that now hang like skeletons near the drapes
like any casualty of love

I found a wedding gown folded in a chest
St. Valentine I know would cry if he felt the stale air
that I gasped when I saw the mold
that covered the lace in disrepair.

The melancholy song of dusty dolls
can be heard from the choir on the shelf'
"Tell us who out there can remember us
for that's all we have left."

I found a house where no one lives
and spent an hour chipping paint from it's walls
trying to figure out where the family had gone
but there was no trace at all.

The creaking doors sing their eulogies
to a time who knows how long ago
when their knobs would turn with surprise
over a mat that read, 'welcome home.'
And I left that house all alone
over a mat that read, 'welcome home.'

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from The Great Giving Up, released July 1, 2010

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Ian Miles Spokane

Ian Miles is an independent singer-songwriter based out of Spokane, WA.
His Music has been described and "a little cool and a little weird – in a good way" and "very story-telling".
Sometimes mellow and bittersweet; a songbird at your window sill and at other times a thunderous full-throated roar of emotive stomping and hollering like a wild preacher of the end-times!
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