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Mist of Time

from Local Life by Dave Perkins

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Mist of Time
Words and Music by Dave Perkins
(Copyright 2008; Dreambox/ASCAP]

Riding on the wind in a dream
We were all travelers then
Who for a brief moment shared a scene
‘fore heading down the road and round a bend

Staked out on a farm in Georgia
We were calling in souls to make a band
She appeared one dewy morning
Drove in with a steel guitar man
Station wagon packed to the windows
She cradled an infant child
We all gathered round like wise men
Who read their future in her sacred smile

I wish I knew, I wish I knew, I wish I knew what happened to you
You’re standing in the mist of time

She and the steel guitar man
They may have had a past
But I could see no chains of love binding them
They might stay but they would not last
There was something sad in her
And that was beauty’s perfect foil
I imagined I could be the one to make her glad
That I could help her find her joy

Maybe I misread the signs
Maybe I was staring at the sun
She seemed in the market for a savior
I thought I was the chosen one

I wish I knew, I wish I knew, I wish I knew what happened to you
You’re standing in the mist of time

I don’t recall her name,
Can’t even remember her face
I just remember how I felt when I saw it
some kind of haunted, wounded grace
She is but a footnote in my story
Just one note in a song
But, one note leads to another
So, to each other we all belong

Riding on the wind in a dream
We were all traveling then
She and I for a brief moment shared a scene
Before she headed down the road and round a bend

I never knew, I never knew, I never knew what happened to you
You’re standing in the mist of time

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from Local Life, released June 12, 2023

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Dave Perkins Tennessee

Dave Perkins' musical journey crisscrosses the map of American music. As guitarist, he played bluegrass and swing with Vassar Clements, renegade-country with Jerry Jeff Walker, singer-songwriter pop with Carole King, Americana with Guy Clark, blues-jazz with violinist Papa John Creach, alt-rock with Chagall Guevara, industrial hard-core with Passafist, and a video performance with Ray
Charles.
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