Song for Dell Flannery

from Trick Knots by Secret Primper

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In the picture you were twenty-four
You’d learned to fake smiles and not to ask for more
You stood alone in a prophetic pose
A regal jaw-line and my father’s nose

You helped your mom keep your brothers fed
You were the first born and the last unwed
Dell did you sense clouds overhead?

You had a choice between an Irish fool
Or bein’ the oldest Old Maid in the typing pool
He charmed your sister, and she approved
He loved the bottle in between “I Love You’s”.

You saw the future but married his past
Your cousins whispered “it’ll never last”
If you were naïve then Dell you grew up fast

Did you cry those nights you spent alone?
(now you’re caught in the middle yeah you’re caught in the middle)
Did he promise you a bigger life and home?
(now you’re caught in the middle yeah you’re caught in the middle)
If it hurt, you…
If it hurt, you…
Dell if it hurt, you never made it known

All he left you was a scar
A final send-off leaning from a cable car
This, the reward for a gracious host
Abandoned at the corner of Powell and Post

In that apartment, you never cast blame
He kept your purse, and you kept his last name
I guess Dell, I might have done the same
I guess Dell, I might have done the same

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from Trick Knots, released December 2, 2011

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