The Trumpet Vine

	  		

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The trumpet vine grew in the kitchen window 
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And bloomed bright orange on the wall 
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You sat in the morning light, holding a guitar 
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As the first summer rain began to fall 
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And like the gentle raindrops your words fell in the air 
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Making things so clear as we quietly sat there 
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It reminded me of other times you had come before 
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And brought a song or just walked in through the kitchen door 
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Now it seems the truest words i ever heard from you 
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Were said at kitchen tables we have known 
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'cause somehow in that warm room, with coffee on the stove 
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Our hearts were really most at home 
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Sitting at a table looking hard at you 
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Catching up on stories of the things we'd tried to do 
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It seems we really said the most when we didn't talk at all 
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Let the songs speak for us like the sunlight on the wall. 
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Now as we come and go, in sunshine and in rain 
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Some years are seen more clearly than the rest 
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And if it weren't for kitchen songs and mornings spent with friends 
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We all might lose the things we love the best 
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I can see you sitting there beneath the trumpet vine 
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The sunlight through the window in the kitchen in my mind. 
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You came when you were needed, i could not ask for more 
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Than to turn to find you walking through the kitchen door.