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memory garbage
packed in brown boxes
little snips of a different time
when things were easy
when things were fine.

a tinsel lost
from its swinging vine
the christmas when i first kissed
under mistletoe
its all gone
except for the tinsel.

there's a half melted birthday candle
from when i turned seventeen
i was lost for a while
in a bright haired mile
from smiling boy to goblin black.

i remember this song
summer of eighty-eight
it's tied somehow to a brown-eyed girl
who left without a trace.
i dug that girl
i miss her now
it doesn't ever come back...

some pictures of an angel,
blue eyed angel,
silly girl
i fell in love with you.
and i can't pick up this telephone
because it weighs a million pounds
and the sound of your voice
rips me apart
you're so far away
from me...
i don't want to find these pictures
in ten years
and see the girl
this blue eyed angel
and remember how she slipped
away from me...



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