Love on Layaway

from Joy Ride Opus by Archer Monk

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Suddenly it’s dawned on me that it’s time for me to go
spinning wheels and nothing feels quite like the first snow
I fell in love with all my heart but I cannot stay
cause everybody’s contemplating puttin’ love on layaway

and I’ll try to stay on but it just ain’t right
the chill in the bone and oh, the dyin’ light!

summer cheats and gives off heat while the plants are in a row
thunderstorms and romance forms while rivers start to flow
and carry all our swollen dreams so far away
now everybody’s hibernating confused and dazed

and I’ll try to stay on but it just ain’t right
the chill in the bone and oh, the dyin’ light!

maybe I will come back again
when the white is gone and you my friend are standing
like a flower in the sun your pedals all undone
there’s nothing like the smell when springtime comes

Halloween it always seems like it’s trying to break you in
have some fun cause summer’s done and winter’s movin’ in
and all the trees have shed their leaves now it’s underway
local news says you lose cause it’s gonna come on Saturday

but I’ll try to stay on but it just ain’t right
the chill in the bone and oh, the dyin’ light!

city lakes they speculate when the ice will lock us in
seems like not so long ago when I held you by your fins
maybe it’s good thing if we hesitate
we can meet on any street as long as it’s sometime in May

I’ll try to stay on but it just ain’t right
the chill in the bone and oh, the dyin’ light!

maybe I will come back again
when the white is gone and you my friend are standing
like a flower in the sun pedals all undone
there’s nothing like the smell when springtime comes

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from Joy Ride Opus, track released October 20, 2022

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Archer Monk San Francisco, California

Archer Monk is singer songwriter T. Wold. He lives near San Francisco.

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