Gone Too Soon

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Simon Joyner

Simon Joyner (born 1971) is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Considered by some[citation needed] to be the forefather of the burgeoning Omaha music scene[citation needed], he has profoundly influenced the music of Bright Eyes. Joyner also collaborated with John Darnielle, of The Mountain Goats, and Beck listed Joyner in his top 10 albums when asked by Rolling Stone. He is also famous for the so called "Peel Incident," when famous British DJ John Peel played his album The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll from beginning to end on air. Joyner is named after Paul Simon. more »

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All those switchbacks cut the time in half
You were on the furthest branch, your forehead dipped in candle wax
There's no peace in rest on that other side
but we'll sleep better here believing that you might

And we spill wine and share the stories
which strain to capture you just right
and there was not a dry eye in the house
You didn't leave a single dry eye

Gone too soon
Your ex-roommate sends his love
with an old snapshot of you at a barbecue
sticking out your tongue
I passed Brian Byrd crouched down on an empty patio
one hand still holding onto the broom
The other sweeping your laughter from his eyes
because now you're gone too soon

Well, Jeff's been sketching a family of pigeons
on the ledge of his apartment nesting
He might convalesce until those eggs hatch
with butcher paper and ink wash at the ready

And Noah takes the horse trails through milkweed and bur oaks
A broken sunset spills before him
And you've got the surliest waiters in Omaha
in the kitchen crying into their aprons

Gone too soon
Shake off that dusty epithet
Nobody laugh and nobody move
Can't you see I'm trying to take your portrait?
Wearing your cowboy hat in that linen suit
and whistling an old Waylon Jennings tune
We just turned away for a second, it seemed
and now you're gone too soon

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