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Summer Street

from No Escape by Solitaires

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When I was a child living on Summer Street
The place was tight in the summer heat
The walls were thin and the family next door
Had a girl my age in the room next to mine

I never saw her face
but I could hear her play in the room next door
In the middle of the night
I’d put my ear to the wall and listen for a sound

My dad found work in the factory
He showed us church and the Top 40
He kept singing that song about Johnny Appleseed
Then he broke his back in the factory

I couldn’t see his whole face
He only let himself cry in the pouring rain
In the middle of the night
I put my ear to the wall, I could hear him pray

My sister made a card for the family next door.
She knocked and knocked until they let her in.
She met that little girl, I could hear them play
In the room next to mine, I put my ear to the wall

For just a few days and then they moved away
I never saw her face
But my sister had changed, she’d become beautifully strange
And she never did forget that little girl’s face

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God is in her mind, moving in the sun, sleeping in the dark
Heavy on the vine, patiently ripening
God, are you alive? Growing in the sun, glowing in the dark?
Heavy on the vine, patiently ripening?
God, you are my child, playing in the sun, calling in the dark
So heavy and so light, patiently ripening
Patiently ripening

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from No Escape, released May 19, 2023

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Solitaires Columbus, Ohio

Solitaires is the creative outlet and recording project of Nate Gelinas. Goal is to express everything while trying to keep it simple. Failures are commonplace. New album "No Escape" out in May 2023. Current collaborators include Jon Helm, Hal Hixson, Jon Schiedermayer, and Andy and Holly Malone. Based in Columbus. ... more

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