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Inuksuk

from Desolation Sound by Luke Maynard

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12. Inuksuk

You can hear the porch bulb hummin’
As you sit beside her sweatin’
And you think of goin’ home,
’Cause she’s the kind of girl
Who waits until the weddin’
In a young man’s eyes.

When all you got’s a hammer, well,
The whole world is your nail.
You got an ‘’81 Camaro, son,
The old town gets to feelin’ like a jail
In a young man’s eyes.

You’d like to think that you could save her
If you take her from this town,
From this land the good Lord gave her,
This home that she built on hallowed ground,
But you know that she’s no highway,
Your Inuksuk in her polyester gown.

Now she had a lover long ago
Who moved across the water.
Oh, he never found his fortune,
But he set down roots
The day he saw his daughter
In a young girls’s eyes.

When all you got’s a single shot,
You don’t never wait for better:
Plant your seeds where they have fallen;
Plant your kisses on a laser-printed letter
For a young girl’s eyes.

And when she asks you if you’re leaving too,
You don’t want to let her down,
Watch her face fall down like ashes,
Watch the spindle of her future come unwound,
But you know that she’s no highway,
This Inuksuk on the edge of her hometown.

When all you got’s a cell phone,
Your whole world is a cell,
But a shining three-inch window’s
Big enough to see she’s just not sleeping well,
Even with a young man’s eyes.

The thing about a settler is
He’s never really home.
All the highway is his poison;
It’s the only thing his bones have ever known—
Except a young girl’s eyes.

She wants to keep on keeping on;
She’ll settle for the chance to settle down
In her diamond-ring world,
Shining bright although it’s not so big around.
She will wait for you forever,
Your Inuksuk, weather-beaten, homeward bound.

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from Desolation Sound, released June 30, 2018
All vocals & instruments by Luke Maynard
Written by Luke Maynard

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Luke Maynard Toronto, Ontario

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, old-school Canadian acoustic troubaour, and all-purpose sonic roustabout.

Loitering around the upper frets since 1996.

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