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St Louis Song

from Curtains by Paris Street

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A song about a girl and a shared balcony, but mainly about the weather.

Fun fact: The "favorite band" playing at the Pageant was The Magnetic Fields.

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On a St. Louis balcony
With little shade and facing east
Intolerable in the late morning heat

Less so as the day goes by
Less so when you come outside
The weather's now the last thing on my mind

You can talk to me for hours as the world makes its slow turn
You can talk to me for hours as my pasty white skin burns
And peels away and burns again with a new intensity
I don't care as long as you are here with me

I love the stories that you tell
Their cadences and rhythmic swells
Pretending we don't know it's hot as hell

It's funny to think how these
Twists of fate brought us here, now we
Only wish that it could be partly cloudy

We'll keep talking as the moon and stars come out in the night sky
When the only other source of light comes from the fireflies
And even though I've to work early and could really use the sleep
I don't care as long as you are here with me

Don't tell me that you haven't
Got enough cash for the Pageant
It's my treat, it's what I can
So you can see your favorite band
So let us walk over the stars
That line the sidewalks of Delmar
Screw the humidity
'Cause it's just you and me

credits

from Curtains, released March 5, 2013
Written by Carl Polgar.
Performed by Carl Polgar with a nylon guitar, an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar, a keyboard, and a drum loop.
This song was written in 2004 in St Louis. It was originally recorded in early 2008 at a duplex in the Sylvan Park neighborhood of Nashville. More recording was done in February of 2013 at a house in the Inglewood neighborhood of Nashville.
The picture that accompanies this track was taken in St Louis in 2007.

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