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Lost and Found

from Western Reserve by Howard Simon

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Lost and Found

Johnny went down to the lost and found with a look of half surprise
Janie’d been gone a day too long, he hadn’t seen it in her eyes
He looked around at the lost and found, time began to unwind
He could see for himself on every shelf the things he’d left behind

Janie went down to the lost and found with something that felt like fear
She dropped in the slot ninety-seven bad thoughts picked up from year to year
She walked around at the lost and found, put Johnny right out of her mind
And every rack said, “Don’t go back to the things you left behind”

The things she left behind
The things she left behind
The things she left behind

Davy went down to the lost and found, a folded flag in his hand
Looking for Ted who was two years’ dead in the dust of Afghanistan
He looked around at the lost and found but the rage just made him blind
Ted was gone, and Davy couldn’t move on from the things he left behind

The things he left behind
The things he left behind
The things he left behind

Sometimes you lose a treasure
Sometimes you find a stone
Sometimes it’s tough to measure
And you’re better off living alone

My mama went down to the lost and found after my daddy had died
She said she didn’t know why she wanted to go but you know, I think she lied
She walked around at the lost and found, all polished, perfumed and refined
And cut off his life with a carving knife and the things he’d left behind

If you go on down to the lost and found, you better not go alone
You might waste the day, you might walk away with something that you don’t even own
I’ll meet you down at the lost and found, we’ll keep tomorrow in mind
But we better move fast or we won’t get past the things we leave behind

The things we leave behind
The things we leave behind
The things we leave behind

The things we leave behind
The things we lose and find
The things we keep in mind
The things we leave behind

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from Western Reserve, released August 22, 2020
Howard Simon: acoustic guitar, vocal
Derek Bianchi: electric guitar, bass, drums
Libby McLaren: backing vocals

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Howard Simon San Francisco, California

I am a San Francisco-based singer-songwriter. My songs are about love (romantic and otherwise), family, morality and mortality. If there is a common thread to my songs, it is the people we love, the desire to do right, and the hope and fear, the peace and the struggle that constitute life bring wonder in addition to its joy and sadness, and sometimes loss. ... more

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