Trick of the Light

from Trick of the Light by Chris Canipe

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Tudor houses
On a leafy street
You and me
And who we want to be
Windowsill ficus
In their starter cups
drunk on sunlight
Just like us

The third notice bills
Unsorted unpaid
The portals and passwords
That stand in the way
Abandon books
That were just getting good
You couldn’t put it down
Then one day you could

Don’t it always seem
To come apart at the seams
Don’t it always look different
Than it did in your dreams
If it always though
Seems to come out right
Is it our imagination
Or a trick of the light

The faucet drips
And that crack in the wall
Seems a little longer
Than it did last fall
Worry creeps
And the mystery key
That we keep in a drawer
Doesn’t open anything

There’s dust like stars
In the window light
In the chaos
Making space for life
It’s you and me
And all of us
Learning to live
With the broken stuff

Don’t it always seem
To come apart at the seams
Don’t it always look different
Than it did in your dreams
If it always though
Seems to come out right
Is it our imagination
Or a trick of the light

I’ve got eyes for the things that I can’t explain
Blues that settle in like a steady rain
I’m somewhere else
Then I’m here with you
Looking for the homework
Or the other shoe
What you gonna do

Don’t it always seem
To come apart at the seams
Don’t it always look different
Than it did in your dreams
If it always though
Seems to come out right
Is it our imagination
Or a trick of the light

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from Trick of the Light, released March 15, 2024

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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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