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Jessica Song

from Peripheral People by The HeartSleeves

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Thank you for always being there for me. For protecting me and being there with me. My sweet, brilliant and strong big sister. I love you and miss you.

lyrics

Lyrics Reprinted by Permission.
©2012 The Heartsleeves™, All Rights Reserved

Jessica Song

Playing tiger
and baby elephant
on the stairs at our home in Schenectady.

all these places
and gentle memories
come flooding in from the world that you shared with me

like playing manta
and moray
in the blue green depths of a Lake George day

and reading comic books by flashlight
when the rain came down
anchored out just us four in old log bay

Jessica
you can never fade
into a memory
you’re tangible and incorruptible
defiant and inseparable
emanating from within me

the long car rides
through Pennsylvania
playing Alphabet with license plates and passing signs

I was new year’s baby
you were father time
performing sketches for Grandma in Pittsburgh at Christmastime

My confidant
My foil at times
As teens we fought
but we repaired the lines

sweet gentle warrior
you are not gone
sweet gentle Amazon.

Watching Evil dead 2
with my hand covered eyes
you insisted to me
it was a comedy

then you’d take out your guitar
and we’d harmonize
those moments still exist in me

Jessica
you can never fade
into a memory
you’re tangible and incorruptible
defiant and inseparable
emanating from within me

you love Christmas cookies
you love bad tv
I love them both too
when you shared them with me

you had a tiger suit
and you took my hand
and I felt safe from that moment on

credits

from Peripheral People, track released March 3, 2012
Composed & arranged by Jared Lucas Nathanson

Lyrics & Melody by Jared Lucas Nathanson

Jared Lucas Nathanson - Vocals
Doug Batchelder - Slide guitar and Wurlitzer Piano.

Recorded and mixed by Doug Batchelder at the Den studios in North Reading, MA
Produced by Doug Batchelder, Ben Margolis, and Jared Lucas Nathanson.
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

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The Heartsleeves Boston, Massachusetts

Neo Eclectic, Soul Reflected, Sounds From Real Life!

Born in the glory and pageant of the noble working cities of Boise, Cleveland, Schenectady, Boston and Syracuse, "The Heartsleeves" is the voice of the no frills sincerity of real world American life.

We write our songs live, and refine them into a melancholy powder of sweet painful regret and sprinkle it on hearty soul pop.
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