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A lot of ideas come and go
A lot of lives fast and slow
Some things you must leave behind
I’ll gladly open the door
I’d happily watch you go
Some things you must leave behind
Tenderness will never show an honest face
Happiness prefers you stupid in your place
So, leave it behind, Tom, leave it behind
The past is seldom ever kind
The past is seldom ever kind
The past is seldom ever kind

Tenderness will never show an honest face
Happiness prefers you stupid in your place
So, leave it behind, Tom, leave it behind
The past is seldom ever kind
The past is seldom ever kind
The past is seldom ever kind

Once a life in a sideshow
A plan to escape from where you’d grown
The blind will keep looking for the blind
Now a wound pinned on your sleeve
The plaintive stair, the fatal ennui
Some things you must leave behind
And tenderness will never show an honest face
Happiness just wants you stupid in your place
So, leave it behind, Tom, leave it behind
The past is seldom ever kind
The past is seldom ever kind
The past is seldom ever kind

credits

from I Want to Hold It So Close, released July 29, 2022
voice, keyboards, drum programming – jeffrey bright
acoustic guitar – jim harper

words – bright
music – harper

c) 1984–1985 B Pictures
p) 2022 JABMA
Fugitive Music Publishing / BMI

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B Pictures Dayton, Ohio

Featuring future members of The Pleasures Pale and Guided by Voices, B Pictures made a brief but vibrant mark on the mid 1980s Dayton OH indie music scene. BP's sound grew from post-punk and neo-psychedelic movements of the period — a la Joy Division, Echo and the Bunnymen and Dream Syndicate — and eventually stretched into territories inhabited by literate song stylists such as The Smiths. ... more

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