215: So I just saw you again today/it was the first time in 12 years...

So I just saw you again today

it was the first time in 12 years

(12 years!)

and you sang me all your old songs

and I gave you a book of mine

and I fell in love

9 times

again

O! reunion, reunion

union of souls

coming together again

too long, too long

it always too long

let’s never wait twelve year again

O! Lost souls

lost brothers from old

New Hampshire

together again

together again!

and it feels like being on

the top

the tip top

the tip top of the world

and you play my favorite chords

notes like flying off

the very top of everything

We’re older now, but we’re younger now too

and it’s been 12 years

and it hasn’t been a second

and everything has changed

and it is all the same

and the world is

spread out beneath us

we’re flying on guitar strings

coffee house words

and a pair of old converse

and I already said it once

and who cares if its all been said before

I want to say it again:

I fell in love 9 times

I fell in love at least

9 times again

O! It’s youth all over again

we are forever young

forever young

and I’m ready to try anything

I’m ready to drive all night

with you to San Francisco

(and don’t you love how

the rhythm of that city’s name

comes off your tongue?)

San Francisco

and my whole world is like

that rhythm

so beautiful so beautiful

thank you so much for coming

everything is so beautiful again

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