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Play in Reverse

from Orange Days on Lemon Street by Lex Land

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about

Land weaves a compelling story about a DIY recording session with a friend. When they decide to listen to the tape backwards at the end of the night, she has a stunning realization that everything could be different if she could just turn back the clock and start over.

lyrics

One day we made a studio out of my living room
to kill some time recording songs
and I wore sunglasses when I sang the one about you
so you wouldn't misread my eyes and take it wrong

'cause in my music I can't sever
my association from our one-way romance
so I just try to not be too embittered
that I never stood a chance

You're the most heartbreaking thing to watch
dressed heart-to-soot as the ideal
Prince Charming from the stories of
Laurel trees and lethal wheels
I am not fair enough a maid,
a mere peasant in distress
your love a pretty fairy-tale
and I'm just too real, I guess.

We listened to the whole session in reverse
after we'd finished that night
and I heard my songs un-sing themselves,
and inside me all wrongs were made right

suddenly I'd never told you how I felt
I never wrote that stupid song
I never drunkenly kissed you
and I never thought twice when you looked my way too long
I never fell asleep in your arms on my floor
I never felt a rush at your smile
I just never considered you that way...
I listened and dreamed all the while-

that you and I were closer still
than maybe we could ever be now
and we're still making music at my place
and enjoying each other somehow
so let's spend the hours
preserving the day
for future reference, when it'll be all I think about anyway
and when I listen back I'll try to remember your face in the light
of my side table lamp, protesting the darkness of night

as I, too, mourn tomorrow,
and the death for which today is due
and hope I might get to live my ever-after
with someone at least a little like you.

credits

from Orange Days on Lemon Street, released July 9, 2008

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