Tonalité : E minor
Verse 1
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It was my
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13th summer.
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It was probably
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June. 32
Grant
Street down in
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Colorado.
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An d I just remember, I was in my backyard,
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and it was the coolest backyard.
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It was just so simple, know, just,
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you know, white painted, wooden fence around it.
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A big tall tree, really skinny, and,
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the leaves were probably about 30 feet up.
And the grass was just so green.
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We had tons of rose bushes in it.
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An d, you know, right down the middle there was like this,
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you know, probably about 8 to 10 rose bushes.
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and all around the edges there was tons of flowers, you know, black eyed seaweeds,
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tulips, irises, more rose bushes, and all sorts of stuff, and it was really cool.
I really liked it.
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And we had this swing set, and it was painted like, you know,
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a barbershop sort of thing, know, like, blue and white and red.
Kind of my younger brother when we used to play on it,
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and I was getting a bit old for it.
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But anyway, I was hanging out in the backyard,
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and my friend
Roxanne came over.
Her last name
Rose
Blue.
Roxanne
Rose
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Blue, where are you today,
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I wonder.
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And I always remember, like, her really being into boys,
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like, when we were about 11 or 12.
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And I still wasn't really that remotely interested, in fact,
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I just was still into sort of kids' stuff, you know?
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So I just remember, I had finished elementary school,
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and I was now going to junior high school.
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So I'm leaning on the back of our house, and I remember it's one of those white,
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sort of wooden boarded houses, you know, like whitewashed.
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And I just remember looking up through the
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leaves of that tree and the sky was just so
blue.
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And the light, just that pretty white light,
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it makes you feel like completely transparent
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an d everything's really
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pure and clean.
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And like the leaves sort of like flickering,
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know, kind of this green flicker.
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I just remember her sitting on a swing of
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a swing and just telling me about what she's
up to.
She's sitting there talking to me,
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talking about her new boyfriend, this guy called
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who's like half
Mexican and half
American
Indian.
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I mean, I'll meet them.
You know...
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I'm trying to think about it.
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She was telling me about
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how she'd gone to
Skate
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City,
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roller skating,
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and I used to go there too.
And, um,
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anyway, she had gone up
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there independently,
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and this guy already knew.
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Rather than going there to ice skate,
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or not ice skate, to roller skate,
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he had said to me,
you know,
I want you to follow me.
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And, you know, I'm sitting there,
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you know,
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leaning against the back of my house,
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and I'm going,
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what the hell is she talking about?
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I have no clue.
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You know, something,
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it was just really weird,
because if ever I think at one point
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in my whole life
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that things change, like, a real subtle change,
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I just thought to myself,
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why would anybody want to do that?
I don't understand.
You know, here I was,
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you know, with this,
You know, sort of really naive,
kid's sort of way of thinking.
And here I had somebody telling
me about sexuality.
And you know something?
You know,
things just got a bit darker after that.
I think I forgot to ask somebody
first. was so shocked.
This is not how I imagined it.
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