Box in the Closet

by Tanner Wood

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+Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen.+

Written and performed by Tanner Wood on acoustic guitar.

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Set sail you sailors and take to the sea
there's sunlight reflecting on shores you shall reach
but I ask you see to it, to clear and keep clean
a shelf in your mind to remember

A rain will fall heavy on ceilings of tin
and long years of roaming may wear your wheels thin
I hope I am something you'll think on and grin
as you sweep up your past and your present begins

but a life in nostalgia you please must abstain
for my rusty trophies, they'll buy you no fame
why toast to yesteryear's symphony in a bar
when outside the window lies an ocean of stars?

So box me up gently behind closet doors
and bury me under a secondhand store's
outfit of odyssey, so simple and warm
and may memory be an eye in the storm

Fly, fly...

now fly on you songbirds and take the sky
there's better things coming so dry your bright eyes
but I ask you see to it, to clear and keep clean
a shelf in your mind to remember...

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released April 2, 2018

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