Cowboy Junkies - Ring on the Sill

      
 
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 She placed her  ring on the  sill,
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  dishes piled high.
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 She's on the  front porch step 
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 and the air smells like  snow. 
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  She's thinking of the siege to  come
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 and how'll she'll  miss those weekends
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 in the park with the sun on her  face
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 and her book by her  side and that
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 lingering  taste that he left on her  tongue.
 
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 He lifts his  glass from the  table.
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 It leaves a  ring where it stood.
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 He sees the  light from the  window
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 caress her  like he knows he should.
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 He's  remembering the first time he  kissed her
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 and how he'd  wake
 and immediatley he'd miss her,
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  like a spell, with each breath,
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  he'd taste he breath like a  haunting,
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  irritating as  hell.
 
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  Do you rem-  ember when you'd  pray
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 to never see  the day
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 when  someone would make you  feel this way.
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 'Cause you  knew
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 it would cut right  through you
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  and once inside, you were  afraid they'd find
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  nothing to  hold on  to.     
 
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 He puts her  ring on her  finger,
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 she  brushes back his hair.
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 He takes a  sip from his  glass,
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 she inhales the  cold fall air. 
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 And they're  thinking of the long road  ahead
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 and the  strength that they will need
 just to reach the end.
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 And  there in the silence they  search for
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 the balance between this  fear they feel
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 and a  love that had graced their  lives.
 
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