Jake

I’m going as far as I can go away from here,
Away from you, Jake, and the hole you’ve sunk me into.
I wish that I could belong here with you and just be,
But that’s not all that I’m about.

Your life is built on accidents like meeting me.
You write everything down in your grocery list.
People do this.
Even insects buzz like airplanes;
Why can’t we fly away?
I’m going as far as I can go.

Your dad died ‘cause his heart hurt,
Arcing away his forty five years, dragging your mom along.
Well, I don’t want that, and neither do you, neither do you.
If I am not fun and I am not interesting,
Perhaps I am not interested in you,
And neither are you.

You can’t stand in front of an oven
If it’s warm ‘cause the fumes are dangerous.

I’m going as far as I can go away from here,
Away from you, Jake, and the hole you’ve sunk me into.
I wish that I could belong here with you and just be,
But that’s not all that I’m about to do.

Lisa wrote this about the song:
Jake was a song that came out of the inside of my brain. The first phrase of the song came up in my head, "I'm going as far as I can go, away from you, Jake, and the hole you've sunk me into," and I then did some free writing to finish the story. I just wrote without a guitar or any instrument- I wasn't necessarily expecting to write a song at the time, but the story turned into a song.

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