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Seventeen

from 1 by Matt Kresling

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Everything we knew was wrong.
Walk out the door and slam the screen.
We were only seventeen.
So long, so long, so long ago.

Living in the shadow of the S.A.T.’s,
drinking apple vinegar we thought was wine.
The war back then was fine with me.
So long, so long, so long ago.
So long, so long, so long ago.
So long, so long ago.

So maybe you remember Rohner Park,
black but for the light above the bridge.
Sitting on the swings, half in the dark,
laughing at things so wrong, so great, so long ago.
So long, so long ago.

Every joke we told was cribbed,
stolen from a late-night show
and said as if it were ad-libbed.
So long, so long, so long ago.

And maybe you remember how
the adults then sung a bittersweet song
with the same words that I’m singing now:
‘so long, so long, so long ago. ’
So long, so long ago.

So maybe you remember Rohner Park
before it was a park and just a field,
where, prior to the diamonds, grasses wild
were growing?
Was it so wrong, or great, so long ago?
So long, so long ago.

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from 1, released January 31, 2009
Drums: Lewie Fitz

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