Can't Sleep Again

from Songs from the Talking House by Annette Wasilik

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Can’t Sleep Again
I can’t sleep again. Been thinking too much; worrying and wondering what may be.
A rift in the family will shake you, when love’s solid walls go paper thin.
Seems even my angels have turned their faces away. Where do you run when the roof’s caving in?

The walls need painting. I don’t care. No paint can cover up the ache in here.
Well-meaning questions and careful words; “If there’s anything at all, just call.”
But they know and I know there’s nothing to do but hang up the phone and let the tears fall.
All my life I’ve waited for you
Darling, don’t you know I’d wait my whole life through
Some say “so it goes” but that’s just not true. I love one man only and that man is you.
I can see you now with your ice blue eyes that pierce me through like daggers in the dark.
Keen conversation can drive you from my mind but no surgeon’s knife could cut you out of my heart.
Since that first day I knew you were mine
Nothing’s really changed, you haunt me all the time.
You’re the question I ask, the answer so near
You’re the beating of my heart and the whisper in my ear.

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from Songs from the Talking House, released January 11, 2018

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Annette Wasilik Takoma Park, Maryland

Dreaming of peacocks, pianos and guitars

Love & Fire:
"A stunning songwriter. Love & Fire is a masterpiece." ~Tom Prasada-Rao
"A dead solid perfect singer/songwriter putting out material straight from the heart, the words, music and voice all come together perfectly." ~Chris Spector, Midwest Record.

Songs from the Talking House won Contemporary Folk Recording of the Year WAMA ... more

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