Natalia Zukerman: Music

• MP3 play whole song, hi-fi (broadband)
• MP3 play whole song, lo-fi (modem)

It’s been a long day
It’s been a long year
It’s a long, windy road
There’s a lot of dead deer
And she cries and cries with every one she sees
“There used to be no roads here,” she says, “Only trees…”

And all those antique shops
With all those vintage clothes
She loves those colored glass bottles
And wood-burning stoves
From a simpler time, when we didn’t rush.
We are missing so much

It’s been a long year
It’s been a long day
We say nothing cuz there’s too much to say
But I had your song in my head through this whole flat state
And this city is plastered with posters of your face

Lets open up a coffee shop
Or a corner store
We could have a honky-tonk with a sawdust floor
We could have some simpler times if we didn’t rush
I don’t want to miss you
I don’t want to miss you
I didn’t know I’d miss you so much

At the end of the day
At the end of this year
I know you’ll still be there but I will be here
Under a different sky and a blanket of stars
That might be the hardest part

I stopped in an antique shop
I looked at those vintage rings
They don’t cost as much
But they meant everything
To someone else in another time
Before I was yours and before you were mine

It’s been a long day
It’s been a long year
It’s a long, windy road
There goes another dead deer.
And you know I cried this time
I said, “How can this be?”
There used to be no roads here, only trees.