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Lille Song

from Ukulele Songs by Al Lutz

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Women with their orthopedic shoes
and greying hair
Shuffle slowly past me on their search
for cleaner air
To fill their lungs, and I am listening
The sound of silent suffering
Has found me, now the sound is everywhere.

Every morning I wake up
and try to leave behind
Dreams I had the night before,
but I can’t rid my mind
Of all these gilded memories of home
I’m lonely, but I’m not alone,
I’m searching,
but I don’t know what to find.

‘Cause every conversation sounds the same
My stunted French a sad refrain
I’m sorry if I seem a little slow.
It’s just that everything’s so
different from
What textbooks said, and I have come
To know that there is so much I don’t know.

Doubt and desperation
drive me to the nearest bar
Where everyone knows everyone
and everyone’s a star.
And it’s so evident I don’t belong,
I sit alone and write this song,
And listen to their voices from afar.

‘‘Cause every conversation sounds the same
Their fluent French a sad refrain
I’m sorry if I seem a little slow.
It’s just that everything’s so
different from
What textbooks said, and I have come
To know that there is so much I don’t know.

So in conclusion, I admit
I’ve made a grave mistake.
I sacrificed my body for
a foreign fist to take.
And if I come across a stranger who
Looks at me like you used to do
I’ll pinch myself until I fall awake.

(chorus)

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from Ukulele Songs, released September 1, 2012

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Al Lutz Plattsburgh, New York

3-minute existential pop songs on (mostly) ukulele.

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