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Yosemite

from Balance by Rain Perry

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Yosemite
words & music by Rain Perry
© 1999 Precipitous Music/BMI
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Behind the backstop
And at the breakfast table
On the school bus
And other assorted torture chambers
The temperature drops
The snow falls
The glacier forms

Ten thousand tons of ice
Are crushing you
Into a beautiful, one-of-a-kind boy
The thaw will come
And you will be
Yosemite

Year by year
Hour by hour
Insults scrape
Lonlinesses scour
Leaving erratics
And striations
A glacial terrain

I've seen the brightest sparks
Glowing from the faces
Of my friends whose lives have been
The biggest mess
They don't make landmarks
Out of ordinary places
Only landscapes that have seen
The most distress

Someday you'll dare
To open your heart
And you'll melt one like mine
Because you are worth knowing
Worth loving
After all

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from Balance, released August 10, 1999

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Rain Perry Ojai, California

Rain Perry’s “Beautiful Tree” was the theme for the CW Network’s Life Unexpected, on which she also had the surreal pleasure of appearing as herself. She has released four albums on her own Precipitous Records, as well as writing and touring a solo play about her childhood. In 2016 she completed The Shopkeeper, her first film. She teaches a series of classes called Songwriting for Civilians. ... more

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