On Another Day

from 2 O's, 2 E's by John Voorhees

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This track was originally part of Picture Perfect Fool (1992), and it's the dark reflection of On The Street Where You Live from My Fair Lady. Instead of being exhilarated by proximity to his true love's house, our narrator is walking that street long after the fire has died. He is overwhelmed by memories, theories, and old resentment and is finally lucky enough to be able to put it all behind him at the end. How romantic.

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On another day, for another reason
I walked our street all alone
At a different time, with a different outlook
Your image was held aloft by questions
Why are you like you are?
How did we make it that far?
And my mind burned like a star on another day

On another road I set my soul to wanderin'
Fighting the impulse to head for home
I see through different eyes, it's like a new dimension
Here are the phantoms I'd forsaken
I was blind to pretend
We would never meet again
Or that we'd meet as friends on another day

Slowly orbiting the jetsam
I try in vain to picture the whole
It's hard to miss what you can hardly imagine
But I feel a vacancy deep in my soul

On another day I dusted off the history
Turned pages past all reckoning
Took another breath, smiled another heartache
Let memory wash over my solitude
Waves on an unfocused shore
'Til I could reflect no more
And I softly shut the door on another day

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from 2 O's, 2 E's, released February 28, 2009

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