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In City We Swing

from River Gone by Alec Betterley

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Water warm we're gonna savor us the the sweet spot
lucrative and we're steeped in lovin' keep the seat hot 
the promenade on a young spring night by the 
smokestack skyline is coming into sight
as we can scheme and slay those empty lanes

What you do you wonder when you're waiting in that chill now
I'd win you back if I could wake in me the will somehow
and by and by with a raincoat grin 
it's a slippery thought about all the places you are in
you're fightin' in a world that you can't explain        

In city we swing where all the buses go
in autumn arriving with a broken bow
and sleeping on a window
where'm I gonna find you
In city we swim where all the roses grow
you wouldn't believe me if I told you so 
so dream dear we'll settle in open ev'ry tiny trap door
dive it down and wash ashore 

You relayed-
"this is that heavenly hour when all the hurt hits
electricity, she showers me where the earth splits"          
so you I tell that it's just as swell
and I will take a trip east to a city we love farewell
and we can live it large in that latest sin 

The pink and the grey of a highway glow
a place in your mind I long to know 
together we tiptoe collect the snow
now is a fine time to find a little flow
yes I'll walk along in that bitter cold
painted and pristine these days unfold
one finest era we're gonna reach that road  
we'll ride in all revelry.

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from River Gone, released June 9, 2023

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Alec Betterley New York

Alec Betterley is an upstate NY-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music therapist. He was a founding member of the groups My Friend Other & Toys and Tiny Instruments, and supports other artists on keys when he can find the time amidst a busy schedule of corralling three youngsters. ... more

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