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Ghosts (Have No Jurisdiction Here)

from At Times We Sat In Silence by Penelope Tree

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Traffics building up and I can barely see the headlights
Lighting the way along the A45.
I haven’t been home in weeks so it all seems nostalgic to me.

And when I get there you’ll come running out with your arms open wide,
Say it’s good to have me back.
Ignoring the fact that it took something pretty miserable
For me to spend the gas money to get here.

You don’t question, you don’t probe, you don’t ask why I came back alone.


I still send cash back in an envelope and love back in X’s and O’s.
I feel pretty proud that somehow you don’t ask what you already know.


And I'll catch up on all the local talk, all the lives that are “harder” than mine.
But when you tell me about my old school friend, you don’t see the tears in my eyes.


I’m not one for giving up, though the South Coast drives me Insane.
I kind of feel calm for a second, but my thoughts all just appertain
To the fact that I’m not where I wanna be, I’m miles from familiar skies.
But I’ll never be one for just giving up or settling for just “Getting By”.


I hear you crying in another room ‘cus you know that I’ll be gone in the morning.
It’s okay Mum, It’s alright.


I’ll still send love back in an envelope and you can still Iron my clothes.
I’ll call once a week and you’ll just repeat the stories I already know.


I’m just a kid overboard but a man overwhelmed.
I’m just a kid overboard but a man overwhelmed.
I’m just a kid overboard but a man overwhelmed.
I’m just a kid overboard… Oh I’m just a kid.


I’m not one for giving up ‘cus there’s got to be more for me here.
And as my friends reach in to draw their blood
I’ll lend them a listening ear.
And I will drive southward at 4am
To make sure they know that I’m here.
I’ll let you in on a secret... I’m always here.

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from At Times We Sat In Silence, released May 17, 2019

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Penelope Tree High Wycombe, UK

Drawing inspiration from common situations, Penelope Tree aim to capture the mature side of Pop-Punk that is both meaningful and relatable. Hailing from Buckinghamshire, the quartet formed in the latter stages of 2015, and since then have worked tirelessly to create songs that en-capture what it really means to be young but getting older. ... more

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