One of My Favorite Monte songs

Jul 22, 2008 20:45

The Way Things Shouldn't Be

I lost my breath in colorado and I'm looking for it still
from tobacco colored bottles that contain all my will
and I'm not getting any younger and with each day and deeper debt
opportunities to squander situations to neglect
we left the conversation hanging between Telluride and here
your method of understanding just defies this ballad here
while the path that leads to wisdom is found on no map that I own
it stretches from the heart to the place I knew as home
so I guess this songs for you as well as its for me
an everyday reminder of the way things shouldn't be
I guess this songs for you as well as its for me
an everyday reminder of the way things shouldn't be

I am constantly enchanted between close enough and you
your strength is your defiance and for me a poor excuse
just beyond my range in the scope of things to be
awaits a new disaster so prepare your sympathy
so I stand here in the spotlight and bare to you my soul
thinking of the times when I had somewhere to go
what I mean is that I miss you especially on the road
and so I hope to call you from somewhere in colorado
and I guess this songs for you as well as its for me
an everyday reminder of the way things shouldn't be
I guess this songs for you as well as its for me
an everyday reminder of the way things shouldn't be
I guess this songs for you as well as its for me
an everyday reminder of the way things shouldn't be

Monte is great fall music- it takes me back to happy freshman days at TLU and San Antonio- it reminds me of driving to San Antonio from Seguin to see Matt's band play at Jazzy Bean. My first real love- I talk about what music does to me so much on here it seems but I can remember everything from that fall just by listening to Monte. I remember the smell of fall- I remember how cold it was in my little white Toyota- I remember my dorm and Elisa and I taking naps on Friday's after Death and Dying class- I remember Halloween that year- studying on the couches at Jazzy Bean on Sunday nights before heading back to TLU- I remember listening to his band play for hours I knew all their songs- I saw Monte 3 or 4 times after that year when I was no longer with Matt, I saw him twice with Ben actually and then got Haley and Jenn into him- but it still never reminds me of Ben, only Matt and that fall and how cold it was everywhere

Monte Hail and I on my 21st


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