Dreamsicle

Album: Reunions (2020)
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  • I guess we're leaving town again
    We're moving out and moving in
    Gotta break the news to all my friends
    But they won't care
    They'll just find another face
    To fall behind, to take my place
    To run way out past second base
    And just stand there

    A dreamsicle on a summer night in a folding lawn chair
    A witch's ring around the moon better get home soon

    Poison oak and poison ivy
    Dirty jokes that blew right by me
    Mama curling up beside me
    Crying to herself
    Why can't daddy just come home
    Forget whatever he did wrong
    He's in a hotel all alone
    And we need help

    A dreamsicle on a summer night in a folding lawn chair
    I'm still packing up my room gotta get home soon
    New sneakers on the high school court
    And you swore you'd be there
    A heart breaking through the springtime
    Breaking into June

    Broken glass and broken vows
    I'll be 18 four years from now
    With different friends in a different town
    I'll finally be free
    Call you both some holiday
    Tell you why I moved away
    Say everything's gonna be okay
    You can come see me

    A dreamsicle on a summer night in a folding lawn chair
    Your daddy's howling at the moon better get home soon
    Heat lightning in the evening sky and my mama's red hair
    Hearts breaking through the springtime breaking into June

    Breaking into June
    Breaking into June Writer/s: Michael Jason Isbell
    Publisher: Downtown Music Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Jd from 29301Jason Isbell nearly provides a short documentary of my childhood and adolescence in the sixties. His mom and mine seem quite similar. Such a familiar painting…
  • Adrian from 85140Tragically beautiful... There is so much pain and sadness in life, one wishes, one hope’s for a place like heaven. Mr. Isbell will be there... at least in my heaven. His lyrics and music shall be lauded for its truthful simplicity at describing the perils and pleasures of life and his honest introspective acknowledgement of being perfectly imperfect. More could—should be said and shared by this wonderful artist and his hauntingly beautiful and poignant storytelling. To Jason, thank you from a new fan, keep on keeping on. To his wife Amanda, hang on, but be ready to let go, if/when necessary. To Miss Mercy, soon you will realize that angels exist, and sometimes they are your parents. All the blessings...
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