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Second Shelf Down

from Look Up by Jonathan Rundman

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words and music by Jonathan Rundman and Beki Hemingway

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on the top shelf of the bookcase to the left inside the door
is the keychain that you carry and the earrings that you wore
and the paper that you took with you this morning on the train
but the story underneath it all remains

there’s a bottle filled with water from the ocean
there’s a ribbon from my mother’s wedding gown
there’s a Bible with your family name inside it
never had a home without these things around
there on the second shelf down
there on the second shelf down

you were wearing that perfume on the day that we first met
and you sprayed it on the letters so i never would forget
so i saved them in a shoebox and I kept them for myself
but now we keep them on the second shelf

in the span of every lifetime there’s a story that unfolds
in the present all too often the best stories go untold
so we keep a few reminders of what was and is to be
we remember us together when we see

a bottle filled with water from the ocean
a ribbon from my mother’s wedding gown
a Bible with your family name inside it
never had a home without these things around
there on the second shelf down
there on the second shelf down

credits

from Look Up, released January 13, 2015
Jonathan Rundman: acoustic guitar, Yamaha PSR-6 keyboard, vocals
Matt Patrick: Lowrey organ bass pedals, synthesizer
Jasper Nephew: electric guitar
Ian Allison: Fender Bass VI
Steve Goold: drums

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Jonathan Rundman Minneapolis, Minnesota

"bright, catchy indie pop" NEW YORK TIMES
“clever, intelligent songwriting” PASTE MAGAZINE
“clever phrasing and fresh rhymes" PERFORMING SONGWRITER
“literate…excellent…a record for anyone who hasn't given up on the idea that good songs, electric/acoustic guitars, and a great drummer are the key to all sorts of epiphanies” CITY PAGES
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