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Woodgreen

from Nomad by Evelyn Elgie

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The old grey house stands alone on the hill
And the light in the study is burning on still
Now the windows are dark, though you think you can see
Every bed filled, every child asleep

Come up and join me one hot summer night
Drinking tea on the porch in the last of the light
The sun will have set by the time we’re alone
for the ghosts in the stairwell will never come home

And if seven’s a family, tell me, what’s one
Alone in the house now the children are gone
Now she stays at the window, remembers the cost
Of the life that she lived and the love that she lost

Once there was a family, once there was love
But now we all bicker and where have we gone
How we longed to grow older and find our own ways
Never knowing that these were the best of our days

Sometimes I think he’ll be there in the den
He’ll smile to see me and hold me again
And the faces I love will return to the nest
And this family’s heart will come home for a rest

If two is company, tell me, what’s one,
In the echoing house now the mourners are gone
You know your dreams will all come with a cost
And this one’s the life and the home that you lost

Your lungs are burning in the cold spring air
There’s a ghost in the kitchen, the carved wooden chair
Memory hurts when you come back this year
Crying in the moonlight at the top of the stairs

If we were a family, why have we gone
From the woods of our childhood protective and strong
Now folded and creased in the words of a song

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from Nomad, released April 17, 2015

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Evelyn Elgie Vancouver, British Columbia

When not lost in the woods of Ontario, Evelyn Elgie lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She likes playing the kazoo and singing very loudly. She works as a Disney princess in her spare time.

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