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lyrics

Caroline

Visited my cousins
Had a place down by the sea.
On the beach
there was this young brunette
Looking at me.
I was surprised as I am not
The type to catch girls’ eyes.
I walked over and said hello
Though usually shy.

Told her what my name is
Asked her hers
And ever since that moment—

Caroline
Has stuck inside my head
Just like a splinter.
Cannot be removed
Any more than you can
The cold from winter.
Caroline
When that name
Finally means nothing to me,
Means that I have died
And won’t regain my mind
For eternity.

Walked around hand in hand
Everybody there would smile.
Forgot all my worries,
Felt happy as a child.
There was a secret place she said
Where no one else would go.
These caves up in the hills
Where there were
Mariners’ ghosts.

Asked me if I had the nerve.
I’d follow her to Hell if need be—

Caroline
Has stuck inside my head
Just like a splinter.
Cannot be removed
Any more than you can
The cold from winter.
Caroline
When that name
Finally means nothing to me,
Means that I have died
And won’t regain my mind
For eternity.

Climbed up in the caves
And felt a presence like she said.
She laughed and yelled,
“You ghosts can’t hurt
After all your dead!”
She took off all her clothes
And so of course I did the same.
Afterward she stared hard at me
Her face now was grave—

“Ghosts all had their chance to live
If they’re unhappy…
Well, they should be!
Love of mine
I’d travel any desert, mountain, ocean.
Fight a witches’ coven,
Fight the Army, Navy, Dirty Dozen.
By you side,
I’d suffer any kind of deprivation.
Go without water and food
And lose my soul and reputation.”

Caroline
Has stuck inside my head
Just like a splinter.
Cannot be removed
Any more than you can
The cold from winter.
Caroline
When that name
Finally means nothing to me,
Means that I have died
And won’t regain my mind
For eternity.

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from After the City Was Taken, released October 19, 2019

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