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Too Late To Say

from Local Life by Dave Perkins

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Too Late to Say
Words and Music by Dave Perkins
Dreambox (ASCAP) 2018

Last night she comes down the stairway of dreams
Light as a falling feather
Down to the bed where the love was all said
And where we called down the stormy weather

It’s too late to say---all the words that remain, that sill do not fade
Too late to tell---all the truth left untold when we went our ways

“We were kind of crazy then” was a song we would sing
A tune we would sing to the moon
But crazy was just a cover for the sadness below
A new coat of paint for a room

It’s too late to tell---all the truth left untold when we went our ways
It’s too late to say---all the things that remain, that never do fade

Come let me show you where a promise goes to die
Maybe you care, maybe you don’t
And maybe there we’ll pledge again our sacred vow
When you said, “Honey I won’t change . . . if you won’t”

I should have known to dance while the music played
But that’s the trouble when you’re calling the tunes
It’s one thing to know how the melodies go
And another to hear what rings true
Rings of gold, rings of silver, rings of smoke in the air

It’s too late to care---‘cause the night ain’t no friend
It’s too late to sing---with the old songs that play again and again

It’s too late, too late---but I can’t let it go
It’s too late to say---but I’ll try anyway . . . just so you know

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from Local Life, released June 12, 2023

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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
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