Navigating a Winter World

from Where Serious People Joke by Nick Watt

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You wanna say the words that you can stand behind
But they leave your mouth like smoke from a chimney

In every wisp of word is a silhouette of a man
And he's telling you, "I've said that before"

You say you need to fly away and find a new home
But no matter who you touch, your hands stay the same

Those shattered memories that time won't rebuild
Have grown into something new

You're frozen from without, like the Neva in Peterburg
That shell of ice will shatter in the spring

Or you can make it melt if you spit balls of fire
If in every ball is a tender call

If you sing from your soul then your body will join in
If you pray from your heals then your eyes will see

If you open a book, the words, they flow out
If I close my mind, will my heart cease to beat?

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from Where Serious People Joke, released October 29, 2012

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Nick Watt

Nick Watt is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter based in Brooklyn. His lyric-driven songs tell stories of people from many walks of life. With musical stylings that draw on blues from his native St. Louis to the jazz of his current home of New York, he creates grooves that support the songs’ narratives.

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