Harlean's Song: Winter Takes a Lover

As I go through my day I see many things that can only feel like home: My job, My friends, That one girl who always takes my breath away. So what happens when you look at something through another pair of eyes? Will everything still have the same effect, will the thing you love become the thing you hate? Or vice versa? I like to think seeing and hearing things through another person's perspective is a good thing, 'cause with someone else as your guide, you may discover things you would've never seen before. So tonight I'm handing the reins of Brian's Song to longtime friend of The Brian Factor and fellow writer Harlean Carpenter.

Harlean: This is my must-hear song from 2006

So for this week I chose "Winter Takes A Lover" By Lovers as this week's

Harlean's Song


"Winter Takes A Lover"
By: Lovers

If you take this away I'll have no one to escort
my fears to the place I have built as my fear-fort
take this away and I'll have no one to hope for
no reason to wait through the winter's sad discourse
no moon-like escape when the night needs a light
source

The look on your face when you loved what I stood for
your smell and your taste like a note on the front
door
a letter to say I miss those sad arms of yours
so I lay in my room and I dream of the colors
that make water move and a body discover
why so many choose to lay with a lover

Because just when you think you're getting well
you see the ring around your heart is held
by some silhouette turned to walk away
but you can tell had a lovely face

Remember the days when you stayed here long before
I had to erase all the pictures of horses
you'd drawn on the space between my nightstand and headboard
so what now, arrange in disappointment order
old lover's names as a decorative border
on a windowpane while the days just grow shorter
or are they the same, and it's me that grows colder?

Like a one-kid army of the good witch
all alone I raise my fist
at night on my bike around your neighborhood
and shout "make me pure, make my heart good"

Well a vigil today is held in an airport
to remember and save a love that could not work
and that beautiful face I never did deserve
and the ferns died away, the ones that we planted
too many mistakes in the care that they wanted
just their skeletons remain now, the garden is haunted

And I'm wasting away in Georgia
but thank God New England's far away
Massachusetts I once loved you
but there's a whole group of states now
I don't want to set foot upon

Where I found your diary's list
of all the things you never did
in that attic full of feelings hid
when you were such a shy kid

In bed do you lay under an afghan
humming and wait to find if the day ends
Without a massive array of self-deprecations?
oh no wait
wait, it's me who does that


Like what you read, want to know more? Then click the
link and learn about Lovers:

http://www.loverstheband.com

"Winter Takes A Lover" is the off of their album "Star Lit Sunken Ship" which is available at all fine music retailers.

Got an idea for a future "Brian's Song", then hit us up and let us know, there's nothing fun and more truer than just sharing some kick ass tunes with the world.

And a special thanks to Harlean Carpenter for wanting to host this week, I know for a fact that she's working on some big plans and I offered to help out in any way so don't be surprised if you hear from Harlean again soon...


Until Next Time,


-Brian and Harlean