DESCRIPTION:
Song: Pennsylvania Song
Artist: Jodie Manross
Album: Still
Track Number: 6
Country of Origin: United States

Lyrics:

Make mudpies under evergreens
Shadow puppets high in the apple trees
There I was Karen Carpenter or Princess Leia
in the purple-gazed eve.
Japanese beetle traps under a Pennsylvania sky
hear a zip, zap, buzz florescent kill light
A passing impersonator, a soap opera star
in a town without street corner magic at all.
Chorus:
Mythmakers, magicweavers
pull these threads together
if dreams should fade
The colors entwine
for I close the fear and loss of change.
Catching fire in strawberry-laced shoes
I let the beauty I love be what I do
in an evening pulled along by firefly light
that was ever more brilliant than sun and moonlight.
A child brilliant to have no adult sensibilities
soars on dandelions and dragonfly wings
and all I have is all that I need
All that I have is all around me.
Chorus
Bridge:
The circles I move grow bigger as I'm drawn inside
Make a myth to replace a memory, but one to pacify.
The circles I move grow deeper as I'm drawn inside
Make a myth to replace a memory, but one to beautify.
The town left home without the train
rusted wrought-iron left in the rain
the people just scattered without the rail
yet fixed and tied to boxcar steel.
With nothing to build and nothing to gain
dreams were lost to brand-new ways
and I had to leave where I stood claim
as winter snow replaced for winter rain.
Chorus


© 1999 Jodie Manross