Jamie

from One Sweet Day by Tom Watts

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Jamie went away today,
To see if he could find something he needed.
Leaving everything behind,
To get some peace of mind if he succeeded.

Whatever he was looking for,
He knew that it was more than what he knew,
And if he could just find a clue,
He'd follow to the core of what was true.

Now with others, now alone,
He'd listen to the tone of conversation.
Some would laugh and some would moan,
The stories of their triumph and frustration.
And many words were used to hone
The product of their own imagination.

But nowhere in the things he heard
Was there a word to satisfy his mind.
And all his effort to unwind
The meaning left it blurred and undefined.

Lesson learned, the thing he needed
Wasn't to be found in what was spoken.
As he stood and looked around,
He heard the sound of idols being broken.

Jamie smiled, not knowing why,
But only that he'd try to find a way
To get behind the things we say,
And let the meaning fly, and fly away.

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from One Sweet Day, released April 25, 2013
Words: Ken Schubert
Music: Thomas Watts

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Tom Watts Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Mostly guitar and mandolin based mixture of vocal and instrumental folkiness from Atlanta area performer and songwriter, Tom Watts.

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