White Shirt

from The Break-Up Album: 25 Years Later by Imperial Midge

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And then finally, on another rainy summer’s day in 1994, I stop fighting and give up.

I had a dream about Mexico. I’m going there in a month, to the sea. It will be my first trip out of the U.S. I had the dream last night after Sayer and I stood in the rain and decided to get officially divorced. I’m ready. What else can I say?

I grabbed her white shirt
Bus door opening up behind
Her against my chest and
Smelled us sweating both
And when her lips left mine
Were wet with hers
I stood under the sun until they dried.

I knew and she did too
That this one big embrace
In being almost late
Had fixed our faith secure.

She sat alone holding her ticket
Forty minutes absently
Staring at passing farms
While all around her older folks
Who’d watched the scene
We’re pleased that love
Was still this recognizable.

They knew and she did too
That this one big embrace
In being almost late
Had fixed our faith secure.

For a while that wasn’t true.
I forgot and she forgot.
Three decades quickly passed
Through other kinds of love and doubt.

Today I found a piece of paper
In the middle of a book with
A description of this scene from years ago
Her white shirt and our common passion,
The hot sun and the bus.

I knew and she did too
That this one big embrace
In being almost late
Had fixed our faith secure.

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from The Break-Up Album: 25 Years Later, released May 29, 2019
Reid Kruger - drums, voice
Tom Schroeder - guitar, voice
Jonathan Zorn - bass, synths

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