Straight Line
from MODERN DAY LIVING by KARIN BLAINE
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STRAIGHT LINE
Our words clattered like a tambourine
And the windows rattled as you slammed the screen door
And the harshness like a layer of dust settled on the floor
I know I got this twist inside
That’s like a beat-up fighter’s pride
Back me in a corner I’ll always hide just how much I hurt
And love ain’t no straight line
Moving from point A to B
It’s more like a spiral
Circling endlessly
And the sky has borrowed your blue again
And it stares at me just like you did
With eyes full of a tenderness I’d never seen before
And what you told me I remember well
Both the saint and the sinner pray from a cell
And the ugly and the dirty and the chaste and the pure
can sound lot alike.
And love ain’t no straight line
Moving from point A to B
It’s more like a spiral
Circling endlessly
And I need you so bad that I hate you for it
I love you so much that it’s frightening
I need you tonight just to hold me close and
Tell me everything’s gonna be all right
And if you ever come back home
I may be here and I may be gone
I haven’t made up my mind yet
And you’ve been such a jerk
I know, I know love is merciful but, baby, this is a petty world
And forgiveness just ain’t very popular
And love ain’t no straight line
Moving from point A to B
It’s more like a spiral
Circling endlessly
© 1996 Karin Blaine/dudessdahlia records (BMI)
Our words clattered like a tambourine
And the windows rattled as you slammed the screen door
And the harshness like a layer of dust settled on the floor
I know I got this twist inside
That’s like a beat-up fighter’s pride
Back me in a corner I’ll always hide just how much I hurt
And love ain’t no straight line
Moving from point A to B
It’s more like a spiral
Circling endlessly
And the sky has borrowed your blue again
And it stares at me just like you did
With eyes full of a tenderness I’d never seen before
And what you told me I remember well
Both the saint and the sinner pray from a cell
And the ugly and the dirty and the chaste and the pure
can sound lot alike.
And love ain’t no straight line
Moving from point A to B
It’s more like a spiral
Circling endlessly
And I need you so bad that I hate you for it
I love you so much that it’s frightening
I need you tonight just to hold me close and
Tell me everything’s gonna be all right
And if you ever come back home
I may be here and I may be gone
I haven’t made up my mind yet
And you’ve been such a jerk
I know, I know love is merciful but, baby, this is a petty world
And forgiveness just ain’t very popular
And love ain’t no straight line
Moving from point A to B
It’s more like a spiral
Circling endlessly
© 1996 Karin Blaine/dudessdahlia records (BMI)
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from MODERN DAY LIVING,
released March 5, 2012
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Karin Blaine Seattle, Washington
Karin Blaine is an indie singer songwriter living in Seattle, WA. She performed in the greater PNW for 35 years, maximizing
the potential of one voice and one guitar to amazing poetic and musical heights Her goal was to always hook up herself and her fellow messiahs with the heart of being human in a modern day world.
Today she connects via poetry and essays as Karin Bardarson.
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