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I Can't Understand the Moon

from Where This River Runs by Andrew McKnight

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An epiphany for a lifetime spent wanting after things which
were just never meant to be mine.

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Words & music A. McKnight, ©1996 Catalooch Music, BMI

Verse 1
I can’t understand the moon, she haunts me, from behind her pale mask,
fell too hard, too soon, too much the fool, to know it would not last
while Mars and Venus they’re making love, before my disbelieving eyes
she scorns me like some ne’er-do-well, but I have dreams inside
are you surprised, would you sympathize, with me

Verse 2
I won’t recognize the moon, dressed in her halo, seems sure to snow
through the voyeur’s lens I swoon, as she’s dancing naked, in the winter air
and all the icicles are laughing, I’m pretty sure at my expense
she makes fidelity obsolete, with the grand scope of her intent
I wish I’d had more sense, than to fall for the moon

Bridge
Somehow God got religion, somewhere near the Pleiades
she left my faith, adrift out there, would you share some with me please

Verse 3
I will never have the moon, there’s naught but cold dark space, between us
like a long forgotten tune, whose melody lingers
somewhere tonight in Miami, a woman in pleated skirt, pirouettes
and falls into the arms of a lover, he who could have had the moon,
he who would not have, the moon

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from Where This River Runs, released August 1, 1998
AM - vocals & guitar
Susan Graham White - piano

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Nationally-acclaimed singer/songwriter and guitarist celebrates rural America, weaves masterfully crafted songs, humorous stories and poetic drama into a musical soundscape sketched with shades of Appalachia, tasteful slide and jazzy blues, feisty anthems, and rustic folk. 5 solo CDs heard on many public & community radio, plus NPR "Art of the Song" & "River City Folk" and XM/Sirius. ... more

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