Anna Coogan: Music

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Crooked Sea

When we settle it will be
by the shore of the crooked sea
by the docks and by the rails
by the ships with their crooked sails
by the stars with their dying light
their lonesome cries keep me up all night

I know you, you’re watching
you are watching me
I know you, you want me
you are what I need

when we wake up we will see
rays of sun on the balcony
watch it slide across the floor
and fall away through the open door
watch the sun in the western sky
as the day fades into the night

I know you, you’re watching
you’re watching me
don’t own you, don’t want to
but you won’t let me be
by the crooked sea

when we wake up we will see
birds singing in the summer trees
birds dancing in the skies above
birds singing their songs of love
watch them fly into the morning
when you left you left no warning
a missing suitcase, an empty bed
a closet full of clothes you left
a cupboard full and an empty desk
an aching heart beating in my chest

I know you, I know you
better than you know yourself
don’t own you, don’t want to,
but you could never love nobody else
by the crooked sea