The Summer I Read Collette

That was the summer that followed the spring

The sad anniversary of a thousand old things

I was letting them go

The words of Collette and a strange new perfume

The drenching my senses and filling the room

The heat from my body is a light in our eyes

First, a surrender and then we could fly

We were letting it go

We're blinded to the beauty in our own lives

But hours taken all I could get

For five or six hours in the month of July

The summer I read Collette

The time was aligned and we learned how to crawl

The bones were a prison and memory of all

If it weren't for the past, I'd feel nothing at all

And now I'm letting it go

It's more than survival, the lesson I've learned

For I've found salvation was quite a surprise

That was the summer that followed the spring

A new way of feeling a million more things

We're blinded by the beauty in our own lives

The hours taken all that I could get

For five or six hours in the month of July

The summer I read Collette

I found Paris a hundred years late

Call it sleeping in ??

My ear to the stone, I can hear her sing

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I sold my silver to get myself there

To a room with a candle up three flights of stairs

That was the summer I let it all go

Fulfilling my body with my heart and soul

We're blinded to the beauty in our own lives

I was taking all I could get

For five or six hours in the month of July

The summer I read Collette