Amber Lampshade from Affinity by Bad Posture Club

If you were well and in your bed
It’d be you up in the middle of the night instead of me
Some undergrad across the street
Dancing to the bottle rocket beat
In the August heat

And do you get up when you can’t sleep?
Sit under the amber lampshade
Watch the shadows from the maple tree
Cross the faces of your family

I thought I knew you, what did I know?
Knew the blue jewel on your finger
Said that I could have it when you go
Then you gave it to me last winter
Some undergrad who stayed through summer term
Bored and burning when it’s banned to burn

And do you get up when sleep won’t come?
Write a line of two of some new poem
Open the blinds on the maple tree
Under the streetlight dreaming shadow dreams

• Folk
• acoustic
• midwestern folk
• queer folk
• singer-songwriter
• vocal harmony
• Anacortes