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The First Song

from Pretty Bird by Cosy Sheridan

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This is the first song I wrote after TR and I split up. It took me six months to have the courage to write again.

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The First Song

Ever since you left I have wondered
What would be the first song
How to wrap a string of words
Around all the ways we went wrong
All the phrases I started
All the pages I erased
I’ve thrown out as many lines as I watched over time
Find their way onto your face

When I was younger this sort of song
Was an easier thing to write
Back then the you was always wrong
And the I was always right
But I have seen you bring about
More than one moment of grace
It’ll be a very long time
Till she can draw every line
That I know by heart on your face

Ever since you left I have wondered
How to be your friend
For all the bright new beginnings
There is a price to pay for the end

It’s not a complicated story
Just a question of where to begin
Everyone’s heard a song of two her’s
Fighting over just one him
In all that I let go of
And all that I embrace
All of the time and every line
You left behind on my face

I have heard about how forgiveness
Will help me to move on
I don’t know if this is forgiveness
All I know is this is the first song

© Cosy Sheridan, Cosyng Music BMI 2014

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from Pretty Bird, released February 14, 2014

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Cosy Sheridan Harrisville, New Hampshire

Cosy Sheridan has been called “one of the era’s finest and most thoughtful songwriters.” Her CD "My Fence & My Neighbor" was in the Top 10 of 2018 on folk radio. "Pretty Bird" was listed among Sing Out Magazine’s Great CDs of 2014. “You can't make it into double digits, and continue touring for twenty or so years, unless you know what you're doing, and do it well,” - The Chicago Examiner. ... more

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