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People Live In Houses

from Yart Sale EP by Katie Dill

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it's like coming inside to your kitchen when you were young,
inside from play for a glass of water, it was
hard for your eyes to see.
hard to adjust to the inside light, it was so
dark and so dim cause the sun was so bright outside
outside.

my favorite things in my grandmother's kitchen were her carpet
with the fringes on the end
and her two traffic lights that hung from the chain on her ceiling fan.
she always gave us ginger ale, she always gave us ginger ale,
and we played in the backyard in the dead grass and the
fig tree that grew there.

well people live in houses and they get older and move out
and they don't live there anymore.
people live in houses and they get older and move out
cause they can't climb the stairs anymore.

once when i was little my father took me to see his old house
in the woods.
when we went back ten years later there was no old house there,
just the woods.
people live in houses and they get older and move out
and start a family.
yeah people live in houses and they get older and move out
and then there's just trees where their houses used to be.

trees will keep a'growing unless there's a nuclear explosion
and they can't do it anymore.
or maybe trees will start a'glowing cause of nuclear exposure
and grow taller than before.
well the earth is everlasting, it'll remain the last thing
unless we blow it up.
but the space that it is taking is even more everlasting
cause we can't blow it up.

memories are beaten by time, but they aren't eaten by time.
memories are black and whitened, sepiad, and colored by time.

houses they get older, they get colder every winter,
and they change hands constantly.
memories don't grow older, they get warmer every summer,
they change hands through storytelling.

it's like coming inside to your kitchen when you were young
inside from play for a glass of water, it was
hard for your eyes to see.
hard to adjust to the inside light, it was so
dark and so dim cause the sun was so bright outside
outside.

it's like walking and talking in black and white.
it's like walking and talking in black and white.
it's like walking and talking in black and white.
it's like walking and talking in black and white.

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from Yart Sale EP, released June 1, 2007

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Katie Dill

Katie Dill is a musician and comedian living in Philadelphia, PA. Singer/songwriter from the band Mean Lady as well. email thekatiedill@gmail.com

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