Perfect Light (Jimmy's Song)

by Ricky Lewis

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how is your trip?
are they treating you kindly?
is your brother still there
with his curls of gold hair?
is it much like a dream
with a stream through a valley,
and sand dunes shaped like faces
you can almost recall?
how you returned in june
to spend time with your family...
in a hot air balloon
with the earth getting small...

all i want is your time
i know it's never been mine
i'm just trying to be still up the hill towards your perfect light

if only i'd known you'd be leaving so quickly
of all the places to go, you went somewhere so far
where the trees hum in years through the clearing of morning
eternally spent in a memory once lost
but nothing is gone, just along in a secret place
as the days stumble on
and i try not to forget or waste them

all i want is your time
i know it's never been mine
i'm just trying to be still up the hill towards your perfect light
with the patience and will of a million men
before i...

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released May 20, 2022
Written by Ricky Lewis

Recorded by Garrett Cook and Ricky Lewis in Room 11 at Danbro Studios, January 2019

Vocals, Guitar - Ricky Lewis
Guitar, Bass, Synthesizers - Garrett Cook
Electric Piano, Organ - Chad Lewis
Drums - Aaron Hamel

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