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The Sparkle in Her Eyes

by Laurence Kingston

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The Sparkle in Her Eyes.

I walked into this bar
where I heard that now she danced.
She'd always been the kind of girl
that I wished I could romance.
But she had never know it
I'd admired her from afar.
I remember driving past her house
too shy to leave my car.

She already was a dancer
a cheer-leader too.
We thought she'd be a famous actress
in just a year or two.
I'd never seen a fire
like the one that lit her eyes.
Each one of her hopes and dreams
we all had memorized.

How can a girl so pretty look so jaded
how could the sparkle in her eyes have faded.
The girl I always wanted is right in front of me
and the joy that used to light her face
is the one thing I can't see.

I looked around there were lots of girls
they were beautiful I'm sure.
But tonight they were only wallpaper
I was looking just for her.
It didn't take that long to find her
dancing near a chair,
a nameless man without a face
held dollars in the air.

I couldn't move so I just stared
to see her naked there.
Her body was more stunning
than the fantasies had dared.
She turned and put her top back on
and then she turned to me.
That's when I saw her new cold brown eyes
staring right through me.

And I became a customer
she'd never seen before,
and she got so close that I could smell
the drinks that she had poured,
but somewhere under the makeup
and the cigarette smell
the sparkle is still there,
so deep it doesn't show.

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released April 15, 2010
I always feel like I need to include the software here because the engineers who make this possible for one person to do all this are pretty incredible:

Studio: Propellerheads Reason & Record.
Pitch correction and harmonies: Celemony Melodyne
Piano: Acoustica Pianissimo.
Guitars & FX: Line 6 Variax and Podfarm

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