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Roller Coaster

from The Wait For Green by Kat Parent

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For Grandma Winn

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Well, I guess you knew it could all fall apart
Like it did before, you were pretty smart
At making do, collecting odds and ends
Saving string and buttons and rubber bands

And you showed your love in pots and pans
In layer bars, in spic and span
Thirty years in that widowed room
With his walking stick by your favorite broom

On a roller coaster through the dark
you rode the curves of your secret heart
Down the tracks of the closet past
heading for the sun or for the next big crash

And you never were an open book
you had clever hands, you were a damn good cook
But every time I got close to the door
you shut up tight, said, “ let’s not talk about this…anymore…”

Cuz I’m on a roller coaster through the dark
and I ride the curves of my secret heart
Down the tracks of the closet past
heading for the sun or for the next big crash…
And I just don’t know for sure how long it’s all gonna last

But in a dream I walked through your door
to your secret side, you weren’t there anymore
So much space for joy and grief
you had cleared it all out, you had found relief

And the empty shelves were a place of rest
a holy space for your fiercest best
I rode the rails of an endless light
Through the long clear halls of your finished life

On a roller coaster through the dark
yeah I still ride the curves of your secret heart
Doubling tracks of the closet past
heading for the sun and for the next big crash—
Oh yeah we know it’s fine
we know it’s not gonna last
And I think we even get to ride it kinda fast

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from The Wait For Green, released September 11, 2017
Katherine Parent: vocals, guitar
Steven Hobert: living room piano, recording

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Kat Parent Minneapolis, Minnesota

Katherine writes gentle and passionate songs that speak to work of healing and resistance. She sings new folk music inspired by generations of family lullabies, by lament and rage, and by vivid dreams.

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