Decade and One - Vienna Teng

[ti:Decade and One]
[ar:Vienna Teng]
[al:Waking Hour]
[00:32.04]once when I was thirty-one
[00:34.89]I woke in the dead of night
[00:38.37]and heard the vastness of the snowfall outside
[00:45.94]slipped downstairs in my bare feet
[00:49.22]soon forgotten freezing
[00:52.81]and pour a milk glass full
[00:55.06]to wait out the tide
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[01:01.05]been a decade and one
[01:06.12]been a decade and one my friends
[01:13.51]a decade and one
[01:17.70]since I
[01:20.36]
[01:22.47]as the white went down
[01:24.57]I thought of the child upstairs
[01:27.34]I thought of the God upstairs
[01:30.54]that I couldn't believe
[01:34.46]I thought of the chosen man
[01:36.91]asleep on his side of the bed
[01:40.71]how green becomes wood
[01:43.64]in a family tree
[01:46.76]
[01:53.18]been a decade and one
[01:57.21]been a decade and one so soon
[02:02.00]a decade and one
[02:05.87]since I stood
[02:10.56]so proud
[02:14.98]and so unsure
[02:20.23]
[03:07.02]ebony glowing by the window there
[03:13.84]as always
[03:17.37]fingers kissed the keys oh so tenderly
[03:23.87]cool ivory returned in kind
[03:29.74]I thought of anger and adulation
[03:35.31]and the taste of dreams realized
[03:40.15]and the waste dreams realized leave behind
[03:50.21]
[03:50.58]a decade and one
[03:54.73]a decade and one
[03:58.47]I said out loud
[04:09.58]a decade and one
[04:18.39]and I am here
[04:23.18]and I am here still standing
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