The Trumpet Vine

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The trumpet vine grew in the 
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kitchen window
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And bloomed bright orange on the 
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wall
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You sat in the morning light, 
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holding A guitar
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As the first summer rain began to 
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fall


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And like the gentle raindrops your 
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words fell in the air
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Making things so clear as we 
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quietly sat there
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It reminded me of other times you 
had come before
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And brought A song or just walked 
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in through the kitchen door


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Now it seems the truest words I 
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ever heard from you
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Were said at kitchen tables we 
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have known
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'cause somehow in that warm room, 
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with coffee on the stove
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Our hearts were really most at home


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Sitting at A table looking hard at 
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you
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Catching up on stories of the 
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things we'd tried to do
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It seems we really said the most 
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when we didn't talk at all
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Let the songs speak for us like 
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the sunlight on the wall.


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Now as we come and go, in sunshine 
and in rain
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Some years are seen more clearly 
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than the rest
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And if it weren't for kitchen 
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songs and mornings spent with 
friends
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We all might lose the things we 
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love the best


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I can see you sitting there beneath 
the trumpet vine
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The sunlight through the window in
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 the kitchen in my mind.
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You came when you were needed, I 
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could not ask for more
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Than to turn to find you walking 
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through the kitchen door.