The One I Remember
The patter of rainfall, a shattering phone call, you were a leaving kind of a girl.
It was hell for leather, but I got it together, I've got a heart full of thunder and pearl.
hell for leather: rough traveling.
Time and again, I see the formula: I ask you to stay
And you got a face full a something you don’t wanna say.
Honey that’s why you’re the one I remember from way back when, and not the one I know.
I had to let go.
I lost November and I can’t remember the cradle of grace I’ve fallen from.
I took a straight line out to the sunshine— I can’t explain what I’ve become.
As soon as I’m moving on, I’m at the bar, and who should walk in?
Well, I’m gonna pass on the trouble and the Beefeater grin.
So you throw your hair back and give out your number
Like it’s written in gold, a thing to behold.
I heard “devious stares” from Marcy Playground as Beefeater stares and I always liked the lyric