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Catherine up and left one day
She had it coming to her
And he tried his best
To smile and let her go
Both needed some time
Though for many different reasons,
But both agreed the next ten weeks
Couldn’t pass but slow

He crossed the drive as she approached the gate
He taxied toward the interstate
She watched the trees
Dissolve into the clouds
He changed his clothes for work that day
She read her magazine
Neither one could rest until
Her plane touched safely down

CHORUS
Sometimes when the rain fell softly
Teasing him with sorrow
He’d find himself off
Staring at the ground
Trying to guess the angle
He could tunnel through the earth
To find her faster than he would
By running half the world around

First night was the longest
Though the last one hardly flew
He had trouble thinking far from her
When he’d nothing else to do
She crept in and out his daydreams
While she had herself a time
Living free across the islands
When he wasn’t on her mind

Talking cost a fortune
And the letters took their time
And the days neither raced
Nor ceased to pass
She saw more of life than she knew,
He was sure that he saw less
Through it all they counted moments
Till the one that brought her back

CHORUS

He was lying in his bed,
She was lying on the beach
His was morning
She was evening that same day
He could hear her as he showered
She could see him as she swam
And for just one breath
She’d never left

She left eighty-five and sunny
He woke up to chilly gray
But he hardly saw her shiver
When she smiled
When she threw her arms around him
He had it coming to him
And with fingers interlocked
They stepped outside

She began to tell him stories
He remembered some his own
And at last the grand reunion
Was at hand
After those ten weeks of waiting
Feeling more or less alone
Those awkward, giddy moments
Bested anything he’d planned

Still sometimes when the rain falls softly
Teasing him with sorrow,
He finds himself off
Staring at the ground
Trying to guess the angle
He could tunnel through the earth
To find her faster than he would
By running half the world around
By running half the block around
By running half the bed around

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from Songs to Get You From Here to There, released December 6, 2006
WW: guitars, vocal, mandolin, bass
Alicia Healey: harmony vocals

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Wes Weddell Seattle, Washington

For the past twenty years, Wes Weddell has worked multiple shifts in the engine room of Seattle’s roots music scene as frontman, sideman, writer, teacher, and community-builder. "Always heartfelt and well-constructed" ("Seattle Weekly"), listeners have come to expect Weddell's songs to "speak for themselves" ("No Depression"). ... more

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