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Beautiful One Time

from Long Distance Relationship by S.A. Bach

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written 2/18/04

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she told me i was beautiful one time
i wonder if she'd even recall
oh flaky one
forgetful one
make me feel like i'm nothin' at all

my first memory of her:
i was 6 and she was 4
i was jealous she already knew how to read
i guess that little bitch was always
one step ahead of me

next memory's of making an ass of myself
at her birthday party
i kept raising my hand when the clown asked us questions
for some reason that was really funny

i don't remember her being there
but she says that she was at my pirate party
'twas the greatest party

i told her she was beautiful once or twice
i wonder if it fazed her at all
elusive one
unavoidable one
how many times i gotta fall?

when me & my dad went to stay at their house
i was 14 and she was 12
she went somewhere with her mom and her brother
and i was in her room by myself

i have this absurdly well-lit memory
of reading shakespeare in her bunkbed
it ain't fair, all the crazy new colors
you can use to tint the old pictures in your head

like she told me one time how she remembered thinking
i was suave back in those days
ain't nothin' like the exclusive past tense
to drive the last shred of hope away

but it's still around
and it comes out
at strange times
like right now

when strange lines
leave my mouth, too dull
to cut the strange vines
that keep me out
of her heart

but sure 'nough
she told me i was beautiful, one time

i told her i was falling pretty hard for her
in an email i wrote about a year ago
i told her i was shy and i told her i was dumb
and i told her she was beautiful

she wrote back saying she was taken so i never did find out
if she had ever actually wanted me at all
and that's how she inspired several good songs
and i feel a bunch more coming on

cause last night i went out to north hollywood
to see her band's debut
felt like i was right back in the thick of it
from out of the blue

and the one thing i felt sure i had over her
turns out she has that too
ain't nothin' like somebody younger and smarter
and wiser and better
and cuter and sweeter
to make you feel like you're pissing your life away
and drive that last shred of hope away

but it's still around
and it comes out
at strange times
like right now

when strange rhymes
leave my mouth, too dumb
to nick the strange vines
that keep me out
of her heart

but sure 'nough
she told me i was beautiful one time
so i guess maybe i was beautiful at one time

credits

from Long Distance Relationship, released June 23, 2007
Rachel Arnold: cello
S.A. Bach: vocals, acoustic guitar, drums, bass, keyboards, banjo
Steve Bach: electric piano
Johnnie Cheng: violin
Shareef Elfiki: string arrangement
Raymond Richards: pedal steel guitar
Cassia Streb: viola

drums recorded by Roger McPherson

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S.A. Bach Springfield, Missouri

ever-bewildered anti-folkie from LA-via-Branson-via-LA. singer-guitarist-songwriter w/Oh Yeah, the Future (comma is part of the name), The Middle Initials, Star Maps & The Bachs. my name is trademarked :(

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