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The Lights Go Out

from Evening Sounds by Jake Shane

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The Lights Go Out

She was washing the dishes and singing with the water
Yellow gloves rubbing the rhythm of her lyric
I held a cloth as she turned to me and said
When I see beauty I always feel melancholic

And her lives above
Painting boats a chestnut shade
And this is my favorite part
When the lights go out

She was searching for books in a room of thousands
Distant music mining under a dark landscape
She brought down two poets, turned to me and said
It’s April—read this sepulcher, then these sonnets to escape

And her skies above
Staring west at Jupiter
And this is my favorite part
When the lights go out

She was playing a Chopin waltz on the untuned R.S. Howard
Black red white ribbon bobbing in her tangled harp-string hair
Her arms were waves of light and I thought I heard
Her whisper about beauty falling from the air

And her treasures above
All hidden in the broken bed
And this is my favorite part
When the lights go out

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from Evening Sounds, released March 13, 2015

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Jake Shane is an American singer-songwriter based in Madrid, Spain.

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