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When the Day Was Done

from The Dream by Tracie Potochnik

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lyrics

The overpasses turned to covered bridges
On the two-hour drive down to my grandma’s house
We pulled off on the dirt road that led to Bedford County
Where the August sun burned the grasstops brown

She’d tend to the zucchini in the garden
And I’d run straight down to the creek to wade
When evening came she’d pick and slice the peaches
That will always be how summer tastes

There was so much I didn’t know back then
And so much that I’d give now to talk to her again

I guess I never really thought to ask her
And I’ll never get a chance now that she’s gone
The fading twilight swallowed our unspoken words
We sat silently when the day was done

You know she’d never talk much about trouble
But others told me that she had her share
The nights that she was left with just a prayer to her name
Did she feel broken down beyond repair?

As the sunset turned the steel blue sky to red
So many things between us were left unsaid

I guess I never really thought to ask her
And I’ll never get a chance now that she’s gone
The fading twilight swallowed our unspoken words
We sat silently when the day was done

If I had just one more day
There’s so much I’d want to know
How to make it through the heartache
Of having nothing real to show
Why the world turns so fast
When there’s still so far to go
I’ll have to find out on my own

I guess I never really thought to ask her
And I’ll never get a chance now that she’s gone
The fading twilight swallowed our unspoken words
We sat silently, we sat silently
We sat silently when the day was done

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from The Dream, released October 15, 2013

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Tracie Potochnik Providence, Rhode Island

Providence-based singer-songwriter Tracie Potochnik is noted for applying simple arrangements and delicately crafted narratives to songs exposing the complexity of the human condition. Tracie brings three chords, the truth, and occasionally a mandolin to her shows. She once killed a man in Reno, but not just to watch him die. Bastard had it coming. ... more

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