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For Only We Know

from So Much Hummus For A Day by Eric Petzoldt

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We met this morning, at the airport you and me.
You headed first to Paris and then to Mexico.
I saw you with your bag and you didn’t really see.
I called your name and then you stopped to go
And then you recognized.
First to Paris and then to Mexico.

You bought two cups of coffee and passed me one around.
We went outside to smoke, next to the cabs we sat.
“Milk is not important”, chatting on the ground.
Henna made your black hair red
And we began to laugh.
Outside to smoke, next to the cabs we sat.

For only we know.
And I don’t have much more to say.
You were there and I was, too.
In the night and it was good.

You watched my eyes and smiled, you smiled and watched again.
I’ll never miss that picture, in my head it is still now.
We thought of your guitar, how they will pack it on the plane.
I wished they’d have allowed
Me to join you on this trip.
I'll never miss that picture, in my head it is still now.

You spoke of change and said a beginning it will rise.
When you come back next month you might have an acting job.
You said you want to work for the good stuff, which was nice.
I asked how you would feel
To smoke a cigarette.
When you come back, then you'll have an acting job.

For only we know.
And I don’t have much more to say.
You were there and I was, too.
In the night and it was good.

When you will move, I come, I said, my little human ashtray.
Your songs and jewels and nana in your house in Abu Ghosh.
This memory keeps me going on every single day.
In Jaffa one day we’ll have a loft,
The night in Nachlaot.
Your songs and jewels in your house in Abu Ghosh.

Now you are in Israel, I’m pretty sure about it.
I’d kiss you on your lips with lipstick or without.
What would I give to hear your voice for five or seven minutes?
Keep it in your mind
And let it go.
I’d kiss you on your lips with lipstick or without.

For only we know.
And I don’t have much more to say.
You were there and I was, too.
In the night and it was good.

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from So Much Hummus For A Day, released July 25, 2016

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Improviser-composer-songwriter Eric Petzoldt is a musician and scholar, who interrogates the guitar and saxophone in various formats and contexts in Europe and North Africa.

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