The Other One

from The Harvest Month by Meridian

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A song about being "the other one" - that is, someone who meets someone else who's already in a relationship and pursues that person anyway.

A friend once told me, "Just be an artist. Get in trouble. Make mistakes."

lyrics

We do this dance every night
Just can't get the timing right
Trade our words but don't make plans
Put the best spin on we can

All I wanted was to make a connection
We missed each other at the erstwhile intersection
Of fortune and timing.

Tell me all about your brother
And how you worry where he'll go
How you hope that he'll discover
Something better than what he knows

And all our parents in their empty households
Will spend their summers wondering how it got so damn cold
In the houses they built for us.

Our brains send signals and we act on every impulse.
Say we're sorry but it's never quite that simple.
Even thoughts have consequences felt for days.
What makes you different? No one leaves this place unscathed.

We long to be our lovers' best
Special and separate from the rest
And all their suitors, many or few
They will not pay attention to

But I saw your eyes swelling up outside my apartment
And in that moment I knew I should have not started.
I won't be the other one.

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from The Harvest Month, released October 1, 2013

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Meridian Cleveland, Ohio

Jake, Max, Steve, Tim and Rozco. five nice midwesterners that play tunes for you.

currently spread across Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. occasionally reconvening to make music, drink whiskey and play pinball.

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