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Queen for a Day

from Tall Tales by Josh Brooks

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There's a pink dress hanging on the back of a door. There's a pair of white high heels side by side on the floor. She knows in her heart they don't fit her anymore, but she keeps them anyway. It was a warm may evening when she was 16. Sometimes she isn't sure if it's a memory or a dream. She closes her eyes, and she's right there again, just like it was yesterday...

CHORUS All the blue and green and red lights shining on that silver disco ball, the gold balloons and paper streamers hung from wall to wall. Now the DJ's at the microphone; the class song begins to play. Now they're calling out her name... queen for a day.

It was a big old pink carnation on a white flag of a year. She lost her mama to cancer, lost her innocence to fear. Even now she wonders how she ever broke clear, just when everything was looking gray. Was it the grief that she kept hidden, all the smiles she pretended? All those nights she could not sleep, feeling uprooted and upended? Was it some secret brightness in her eyes, just when she thought all hope was gone away? Or...CHORUS

If the other girls were jealous, she didn't really care. They all went to college, married money and settled down somewhere. Her life was never easy; she took the hard, hard way. But the one thing they could never take away... queen for a day.

It was a warm may evening when she was 16. Sometimes it's like a memory; sometimes it's just a dream. She runs her fingers 'cross that crinoline and it all comes rushing back like it was yesterday. CHORUS

There's a pink dress hanging on the back of a door...

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from Tall Tales, released December 18, 2014

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Vermont singer, songwriter & guitarist Josh Brooks has been called “a storyteller and message-bearer whose word-smithery and hints of darkness keep you listening to the end” (Seven Days), and ’Vermont’s Johnny Cash’ (Northeast Performer). Fans of Steve Earle, Guy Clark and John Prine will all find something to like in Josh Brooks. Visit www.joshbrooksmusic.com for more info. ... more

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