Sides of Different Coins

from Trick of the Light by Chris Canipe

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lyrics

Maybe we’re the same
sides of different coins
Just like one another
Trying to live up to our mothers
Friendship seems so easy
When you’re young and unencumbered
The years keep turning over
It’s different when you’re older

Maybe when the sun sets later in the spring
We’ll have everybody over
And the kids can run around
How many ways
can we meet in the middle
All the things in the way
they matter so little
At the end of the day

I can’t shake the guilty feeling
Something was or can’t be done
Like everything is stolen
And we’re out here on the run
Maybe everybody wonders
Like I wonder about us now
If the stars are just for them
The only living souls around

Maybe when the lilacs blossom in the spring
We’ll have everybody over
And the kids can run around
How many ways
can we meet in the middle
All the things in the way
they matter so little
At the end of the day

Maybe when recent history
Isn’t recent anymore
It gets hard to climb the stairs
And dementia’s at the door
Maybe this will be the place
We’re forever coming back
Do you know you’re at your best
Before your best is in the past

Maybe it’s not our nature
To say the things we really mean
I keep fumbling with the lock
I can’t seem to find the key
All our friends are scattered
To adventures on the wind
I don’t know if and when
We’ll be together again

Maybe when the birds
are back here in the spring
We’ll have everybody over
And the kids can run around

How many ways
can we meet in the middle
All the things in the way
they matter so little
At the end of the day

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from Trick of the Light, released March 15, 2024
Lou Nevins played bass guitar. Molly Healey wrote and performed the strings arrangement. Phil Norath played percussion.

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Chris Canipe Kansas City, Missouri

Chris Canipe is a singer-songwriter type guy from Kansas City who records records at home. Sometimes he plays with Malone, an excellent three-songwriter outfit from Columbia, Missouri.

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