Card Games from Lightbeams & Boulders by Benjamin Nicholas

The banquet is set upon a blanket
For mourning our endless July
Her heat wore away into August
And I knew she would go, but I wish she would stay for the night

Heard you found a lover in the city
A real diamond in the rough
You told me that nobody would replace me
And “it’s not the same”
Well I guess it was close enough

Piece by piece and inch by inch
I’m giving it up, I’m calling it quits
Page by page and row by row
I’m laying it down, I’m letting you go

Piece by piece and inch by inch
I’m giving it up, I’m calling it quits
Page by page and row by row
I’m laying it down, I’m letting you go

Piece by piece and inch by inch
I’m giving it up, I’m calling it quits
Page by page and row by row
I’m laying it down, I’m letting you go
I’m laying it down, I’m letting you go

But if everything has stayed right where we left it
Then we’re still by the lighthouse on the hill
And you can still confess that you need me
While I’m losing at card games, pretending that I let you win

I’ll always let you win

• Alternative
• folk
• queer
• singer-songwriter
• twee
• twee folk
• Long Beach