Page 109 of Songs for Other People's Weddings

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J leads them to the piano in the suite. Thor and Meta sit down next to each other on the couch, hand in hand, an expectant audience.

In you I see myself

In you I see someone I loved

Your stupid youthful ignorance

I’ll tell you where it can be shoved

I want to warn you

I want to teach you

I want to tell you to cover your ears

and ignore every word I have to say

Because I think that you will make it

but I know the rules for traveling in time

If I tell you how things went for me

will that change your path further down the line?

Cause I’m a sad old time traveler

trying to find the point where things went wrong

but you don’t get a second chance, once it’s done it’s done

You learn so much that you can’t unlearn

You burn so soft but you can’t unburn

And for every time you’re hurt the ice sheet grows

Silently it snows

Ask Antarctica, it knows

So open your ears now

not to me but to each other

You are young now, you are here now

Even Antarctica is filled with flowers

Do you hear the song

playing softly

from somewhere

deep within?

That’s the song that my song wants you to sing