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The One You Wrote for Me

from Lookout by Scott Pinkmountain

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The One You Wrote For Me

First time I saw Sandy, she was singing in a fair ground band.
She said, “I know they’re awful, but the drummer’s got a mini van.
We did 13 states last August. From Kansas to old Kentuck.
The crowd was pretty good in Lincoln. We even made it home with a couple bucks.”

She played a beat-up, nylon, hand-me-down flat-top, always missing a string.
She’d close her eyes, and open her mouth, she and that guitar would sing.

Sandy played covers at Jericho’s while the regulars were numbing their minds.
She’d drop in a couple originals and it’d feel like she was stopping time.
Her songs were flashes of sulphur in flame, her voice soft rain on a lake.
I can close my eyes and see her in that neighborhood bar and my heart does a double take

I swore I’d loan her the cash to get to Los Angeles
She laughed and said she’d pay me back out of her royalties.

Everything I gave, I gave for free
But Sandy sing the one you wrote for me.

Sandy saw I was serious when I doubled up shifts at night.
She promised that she’d love me forever, I said, “Just promise me you’ll always write.”
Postcards coming in from every town, sometimes three a day.
Playing me songs on the hotel phone, saying you wish you was with me in L.A.

First time I watched you on the television, you mouthed my name while people were clapping.
After nine months in Europe, Australia, Japan, you said, “Come on boy, you knew this would happen.”

I got a box of postcards somewhere and a slightly used diamond ring.
Sandy paid me back every penny she borrowed. She don’t owe me a thing.

Sandy kept her word, she’s still writing songs, and mostly she writes like she means it.
But you weren’t there at the Jericho. Man, I wish you could’ve seen it.

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from Lookout, released February 11, 2014

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Scott Pinkmountain California

Scott Pinkmountain (aka Scott Rosenberg) is an American musician and a writer. Over the past 20 years, he has recorded and performed extensively in the U.S. and Europe with many excellent musicians including Anthony Braxton, Jacopo Andreini, Gino Robair, Sam Coomes, Arrington Di Dionyso, Phil Minton, Jaap Blonk, Pauline Oliveros, Tim Daisy, Nate Wooley, and others. ... more

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